viewing stolen nude photos

[ignoramus]

Wuh? They don't have tits in Portugal? hehe

[Aroura]

It would be unethical to look for them, or look at them (at length) if you stumbled across them.

Of course it is naive to take nude pics of ones self and not protect them better, but it IS victim blaming to say it is therefore her fault, or is therefore ok to look. Lots of people do stupid things every day, that does not make victimizing those people (even if you didn't steal the pics, but instead spread them around, or just look, it is still a kind of victimization) acceptable.

[Aoi Magi]

Meh, if only our society would grow up and stop making such a fuss about nudity, this kind of thing would never happen. sigh!! Anyway I believe active searching and viewing of such pictures are very wrong, but I wouldn't call it a punishable offence.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

I'm curious to know how ya'll feel about the morality of looking at stolen nude photos of celebrities that were posted on the internet.

I'll be honest. I don't consider it unethical. I mean, I don't think I'll be harming anyone by looking at freely available pictures on the internet...

One case in particular that comes to mind is Jennifer Lawrence. Her cloud account was hacked about 3 years ago and the nude photos she had taken of herself for her boyfriend were posted on the internet and got thousands of views, all against her consent.

No offense but white English, European women don't do it for me. I did hear about it but I wasn't interested enough to look it up.

I'm sure we can all agree that having stolen them and posted them is wrong.

100% agree.

But is it wrong to google them and look at them once they are out there?

I don't think it's "wrong". Was it ethically wrong to look at what information Snowden leaked?

[Catholic_Lady]

Well, I just don't think you can really compare government information that was wrongfully leaked to nude pictures of another human being's body that was wrongfully leaked. That's kind of the same lines as comparing a human to an object. I don't think it's right to look at someone's naked body without their consent. In a way it isn't different from being a Peeping Tom. It's done over the internet, and I know everything feels less wrong when you do it on the internet, but the principle is the same... you're looking at someone's private body parts without their consent and against their will, and violating their privacy and their dignity.

[Mister Agenda]

Hmmm. I'm not in to nude celebrity pics, generally speaking. I couldn't pick Jennifer Anniston out of a lineup. But not sure how me not Googling her pic will reduce the damage at this point. She'll never know I didn't look. The harm was done when the pics were released on the internet. I empathize with how she must feel about strangers ogling her nude pics when she never intended that. It would be cold to contemplate that and then rush off to do some ogling myself.

But someone who likes to view nude celebrity pics of Anniston is going to find them, even if they're faked. Short of some sort of software to find and erase them, there's not much to be done about it. I'm not sure if it completes the journey from just creepy to plain wrong though.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

People are still going to look at it at least secretly and share with others provided it's piqued their interest.. I don't think there's a realistic way to actually stop this.. Once something is on the internet it stays there and whether we like it or not smart people are going to take advantage of a system and hack into its contents someday, somehow..the only way to protect yourself from this is to keep the contents as secure as possible or just don't do it.. rebelling against it is.......useless(as it currently stands)

[vorlon13]

It's not widely known, but most of those nude pics on line of Brad Pitt are just his head photoshopped on to my body.


Figured I had better be open about that.

[Catholic_Lady]

I guess I just don't understand why, when someone is a victim of some sort of crime, no one says "well they should have locked their doors/not walked down that street/not hung out with that crowd/etc", unless the victim is a woman and the crime was sex related. But if someone's house gets robbed, for example, the topic never becomes about how they should have locked their doors or had an alarm system or not bought a house in that neighborhood. But if a woman's phone get's hacked and her nude photos stolen, all of a sudden it's like "wellp, she should have known better..."

It's almost like there still exists this underlying, subconscious mentality that women are walking temptations and men are gonna do what men are gonna do.

[brewer]

When I left my car running in the winter to defrost the windows, went back inside, and it was stolen you better believe the police told me you should have known better. 

And I should have. Guess I'm a lazy temptation.