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One dark night of my soul, I posted something on the CL spirituality forum. While about 90% of the responses were great, there were some people who were just a*sholes to me. I'm like, "Why the hell are you trolling the spirituality forum? There's nothing on television?!!!"
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I just don't understand what sort of person would email those photos to the family though. You must be utterly without conscience.
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Criminal laws could be a very bad idea - as it could have a chilling effect on whistle-blowers - there's a fine line that requires careful definitions to be imposed.
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It's difficult to write about stories like this. Dodai is in the uncomfortable position of increasing the views of those photos by reporting on why we shouldn't be looking at them. Obviously, she can't control the reactions of her readers.
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It's really no excuse, I know. And it was probably one of the worst things I've seen.
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I also refuse to google tubgirl, but that's self-preservation more than anything else.
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The girls have NOTHING to do with the Internet because they're scared to accidentally see the pictures. There's nothing funny about it. I have no clue why anyone would use them for sick and disgusting "humor".
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If any of the sites posting the photos are also making money from ads, and are using the photos to generate web hits, couldn't that be considered using her likeness to make money?
I have no idea if any of the sites are, but if that arguement is even possible, that maybe could get some of the photos down.
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um, it's not a public service when you don't have approval from the dead's next of kin to circulate the photos.
a good friend of mine works for the local medical examiner, and the laws that surround releasing names of people who die are voluminous. the CHiP idiots who circulated the photo should be sued for other reasons since the stupid first judge threw out the case.
weird as it sounds, this whole thing makes me thing of the sexting phenomena. am i alone in this?
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In high school, a friend of mine sent out a group email with horrifying photos of a motorcycle wreck, no warning that they'd be pictures of people missing limbs and decapitations. She sent it as a precautionary tale to tell her friends that she disagrees with people riding motorcycles. None of us had motorcycles or were even thinking of buying one, so it was pointless and gross on so many levels. It's been 10 years or so and I still think about those pictures now and then. It sickens me that photos like that can 'leak' to the public.
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i remember seeing the accident photos from my drivers ed class and the effect they had on me. they were also in a controlled, safe environment and the pictures weren't being sent to everybody's niece, nephew, grandma, what have you.
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It seems like every damn day I get more information detailing how we are all doomed as a society. Really? How difficult is it for someone to put themselves into the family's position? Would YOU want photos of your child, your parent, your spouse, sent to you like that? Would you want a bunch of degraded, amoral jackasses with the empathic capacities of a praying mantis pronouncing judgment on your family? Then here's an idea: DON'T. FUCKING. DO. IT.
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