Oh Crap! As a avid Photoshop'er..I'm so screwed!
Posted on 02/14/2013 7:36:50 AM PST by TigerClaws
Sometimes people don't appreciate flattery. They are so engrossed in their own grossly skewed view of the world that their sense of humor flies into the night like a married lover late home for dinner. How else can one explain the quite bizarre intentions of Georgia state Rep. Earnest Smith? He clearly sees a vast importance in being Earnest. He clearly believes that his constituents are so drawn to his Earnestness that anything that deviates it from absolute Earnestness deserves the full metal force of the law. Which is why he wants to make lewd, coarse, filthy Photoshopping illegal and punishable with a fine of $1,000.
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Oh Crap! As a avid Photoshop'er..I'm so screwed!
Nowhere does in mention, in the entire story, this bozo is a Rat. Someone points that out a few comments down.
bttt
great pics.
OH ok, all those years of libs photoshopping W as a monkey or hitler well that was OK, but now that it’s happened to HIM well, now somethings gotta be done. F you AHOLE.
I think you described pretty much my thinking, but more eloquently than I could have. It comes down to “my rights end where yours begin” — that is, the machete wielder is perfectly fine possessing and carrying the weapon, but once it uses it to start harming others without just cause, then it’s wrong.
In this case, that is, photoshopping, it’s fuzzier because the damage potentially done is to abstract concepts such as reputation. Clearly, an attempt to falsely manipulate an image for gain would be fraud, but at the same time, parody and satire are strongly protected concepts.
I think, regardless of the content of the image alteration (e.g., “lewd”, “obscene”), and such altered image that is presented as being “true” that can damage a person’s reputation and/or livelihood (the example of photoshopping an image of a pastor or priest (or say, elementary school principal) entering a porn shop is a good one) should be subject to AT LEAST civil damages for libel.
A criminal charge is harder to justify, though when you get into the realm of pornographic imagery, you’re already treading in gray areas to start with.
But something clearly presented as parody or satire (barring any obscenity issues) should be immune from such litigation.
lol....I hadn’t seen that one. That’s hilarious.
If you call it Art, you can get away with anything, particularly if you are a Liberal.
The recourse to photoshops that are malicious lies should be in civil courts not criminal courts.
cracked.com could be in a lot of trouble if this passes.
all the liberal muck mucks who make fun of people left and right,wonder what they are thinking...
and earnest you’re a scmmy politician, not our parent. 1st amendment earnest. don’t likey, don’t listen.
earnest forgets there are libel and slander laws, with hundreds of years of case law behind that.
This should be a good thread. I will get a picture of this “lawmaker” when I get home and get busy!
pictures or it didn’t happen.
What the he x 2 hockey sticks is THAT? Looks like a transvestite who chased me with a knife while on Shore Patrol in Naples...
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Thanks. Agreed. Satire, and humor are entirely different than something presented as truth. The only problem with that is that in the internet age something done well and fuzzily presented as satire can then later take on a life of its own as something real. Once it has it is hard to squash, and damage can be done before it does. Still I wouldn’t want to legislate against it. We as internet consumers need to be careful that we don’t propagate misinformation. Many founding fathers quotes on 2nd ammendment for example are unsupportable from original historic sources. We would do well to check our sources and only using good information. There are plenty of valid quotes.
Lewd and obscene, I agree, are considered grayer areas. My point with that is that 200-300 years ago that was not at all gray. Is that because they were out of touch with liberty, or because we are out of touch with morality?
Will simply putting two pictures in close proximity be cause for a fine, even if you don't alter the photos?
so how do you guys get picts in the posts? Do you just type an anchor tag with href to a link to the picture somewhere else on the internet?
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