Re:California Arrests the Owner of a Revenge Porn Site
by yummyfajitas on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:03AM
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I am taking as a given that most people here don't want further restrictions on newspapers, and generally support free speech as it currently exists. My argument is simply attacking the distinction between newspapers and revenge porn.
If you oppose contemporary journalism as well and favor a more Chinese approach to free speech, I will be unpersuasive.
Re:California Arrests the Owner of a Revenge Porn Site
by tptacek on Thursday December 12, 2013 @09:16AM
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That rhetoric is lame. You can argue better than that.
Re:California Arrests the Owner of a Revenge Porn Site
by dinkumthinkum on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @06:40PM
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Well yes it is ridiculous. If you want to blame this game of "everything is journalism" then probably we should revisit the whole notion of freedom of the press.
Re:California Arrests the Owner of a Revenge Porn Site
by gdulli on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @06:52PM
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Freedom isn't and can't be absolute. There's too much predation in human nature for that to be a possibility. Reasonable lines need to be drawn, and nudging a line one way or another is going to happen sometimes and doesn't always need to be feared as the beginning of a slippery slope or invite sarcastic comments about whether we still have a free press. Deciding that our society is going to have a standard of behavior above revenge porn has value. If we were capable (collectively) of handling absolute freedom, we might have it.
To the extent that Anthony Weiner's mistakes in his personal life does impact his job, which is in the public interest, that can qualify as journalism and separate him from the common case of a typical victim of these sites.