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.
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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.