• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The GDP scandal was one of those I still don’t know if I understand.

    They were breaking all sorts of laws in the process of making them, but the videos themselves were somehow legal? And it basically came down to the hosting platforms to remove them (which idk if they ever did).

    Like this was a full blown conspiracy effort. What did they think was going to happen when they released the video of any victim and the victim asks in the video of anyone is going to see it?

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      3 days ago

      The first amendment is a very strong freedom of speech in this country.

      For example: if (purely hypothetical) I threaten you with bodily harm or similar, I could be imprisoned such as one sentence I saw a headline about today, HOWEVER it is your right to tell people about those threats via the first amendment.

      IMO the law just needs to catch up perhaps by transferring copyright to the U.S. as punishment for a crime so they can legally DMCA them on pure copyright grounds. But nonconsensual porn is a legal grey area technically. Underage laws are very much limited to the underage.

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        3 days ago

        nothing will ever remove these videos from the internet, you can type GDP e# and find every single episode right now via regular search engines.

        it’s the internet…that’s how it works, never going to change. dmca threats only matter against legitimate businesses with significant exposure to US markets, like Pornhub, which don’t even host that content (anymore, they purged alot of their dubious “amatuer” content right around the same time as all this shit went down, iirc). To everyone else, your dmca requests are rightfully treated like toilet paper.

        the best thing the US could do to stop these US-based sex trafficking pipelines is invest in public education, so their woman are smarter and less susceptible to them. (as well as invest in a proper social safety net, so only those that actually want to do sex-work get into the business), but the nation where scam-culture reigns naturally loves to keep it’s population stupid and struggling