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To: ken in texas

How about looking at this a different way:

It isn’t a free speech issue, it is an issue of intellectual property (an image of you taken without your specific permission for publication is a violation of your PROPERTY rights). Another thing is invasion of privacy - you have a right to NOT expose your image, particularly of body parts that are traditionally taboo to be shown in public. Those 2 things - property rights and the right to privacy - should overcome free speech issues...particularly if some legislature could artfully craft appropriate legislation.


17 posted on 04/23/2018 9:19:04 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ancesthntr

I believe both of those issues should be reserved for civil court where you can sue somebody for those infractions.


18 posted on 04/23/2018 9:30:10 AM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: Ancesthntr
It isn’t a free speech issue, it is an issue of intellectual property (an image of you taken without your specific permission for publication is a violation of your PROPERTY rights). Another thing is invasion of privacy - you have a right to NOT expose your image, particularly of body parts that are traditionally taboo to be shown in public. Those 2 things - property rights and the right to privacy - should overcome free speech issues...particularly if some legislature could artfully craft appropriate legislation.
I think you're exactly right. The statute in question was overturned for being "overly broad." Legislatures at all levels (from Congress on down to your small-town city councils) often write very sloppy, overly broad laws.

I don't support anyone posting nude pictures of their ex, but I do support the requirement that laws prohibiting such be sufficiently and narrowly defined rather than overly broad. The First Amendment is under attack already. We don't want to weaken it further with bad laws that derive from good intentions.
19 posted on 04/23/2018 9:43:25 AM PDT by sonjay
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To: Ancesthntr
Those 2 things - property rights and the right to privacy - should overcome free speech issues...

I'm inclined to agree. Unfortunately, considering how large the penumbra of the Constitution has grown, there's no telling what whould end up being permissible or not. ;-)

21 posted on 04/23/2018 11:27:05 AM PDT by ken in texas
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