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Re:The Twitter Files by pacoWebConsult on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:17PM (#33840188)
Twitter is used by sex workers all the time for pornographic images. What specifically about them violates the rules? Is it the fact that the person did not intend on those images being released? Do they have a claim if those images were no longer their property given the terms of service of the repair shop where the laptop was abandoned?
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Re:The Twitter Files by belltaco on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:25PM (#33840237)
>California legislators passed a revenge porn law making it a crime for anyone to post online photos or videos of someone's intimate body parts without consent. The revenge porn law is defined under California Penal Code 647(J)(4) and often considered a type of nonconsensual pornography.

https://www.cronisraelsandstark.com/revenge-porn-california-...

Twitter HQ is in California.

>Is it the fact that the person did not intend on those images being released? Do they have a claim if those images were no longer their property given the terms of service of the repair shop where the laptop was abandoned?

I can understand the repair shop owning the hardware and being able to wipe the data and resell it. But do those terms also give the repair shop the right to login to bank accounts via saved passwords and transfer money? Or use the SSNs to apply for loans? Where is the line drawn?

If your company HR's data including your SSN and bank account numbers were on a laptop they abandoned at a repair shop, does the repair shop get to post them on their website?

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Re:The Twitter Files by DenverCoder99 on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:46PM (#33840365)
From the site you linked to:

“... then they distribute the images knowing they will cause serious emotional distress, is guilty of revenge porn.”

Posting these pictures of Hunter was not done with the intent of causing emotional distress (and even if they did, Hunter wouldn't even care, he's too busy brushing his nose).

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Re:The Twitter Files by sroussey on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:38PM (#33840314)
The images need to be labeled as adult, but for the bigger issue I think it’s easier to think of it as revenge porn.
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Re:The Twitter Files by etchalon on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:21PM (#33840215)
Twitter's policy against "revenge porn" was likely the controlling factor. Also, in general, posting private photos of someone, without their consent, is disallowed on most/all platforms.
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Re:The Twitter Files by Renaud on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:49PM (#33840703)
Sex workers agree to posting these pictures (at least we hope they do).

Are you arguing that it would be ok to post intimate pictures of you or someone in your family, or anybody, basically, without them explicitly agreeing to?

Are you seriously saying that a repair shop could take your personal data and publish it online as they wished because they just got access to your laptop (however they got it)?

In what world does a laptop repair shop has terms of services that would explicitly allow that?

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