Lawtonfogle

This is one reason age of consent laws are messed up. No one goes from unable to consent to sex no matter what the relationship to straight to making porn with guys 4 times her age, having sex with guys with STDs, and getting pregnant by hobos.

The problem is no politician is going to reform the laws because they will be seen as soft on sex offenders (people who tell you the laws are too complex to reform are talking BS because there plenty of complex laws out there).

Additionally, if we can expect people to be responsible when it comes to online activity like banking, why can't we expect some amount of common sense when it comes to shuffling digital images of ourselves?

If you give me your bank account password because we are in a relationship, if after a breakup I post it to 4chan for them to drain it dry, that is still not legal. Same thing with your nude photos.

It was a case of someone being willingly photographed and then transmitting that photograph electronically to one or more persons.

If you consent to sex with me today, I still have to have your consent for sex tomorrow. If you consent to vaginal sex today, I still must have your consent for anal sex. Just because you consent to me seeing and being able to keep a copy of your nudes does not mean you consent to me releasing them.

If website owners become responsible for things which are said or shown on their websites, they will have to manually filter everything themselves.

We apply the exact same standards that child porn are covered under. If you allow users to upload nudes currently, how do you handle children who upload material. When you notice it, you flag and delete it. But what about older children, 16-18 who are so into if not past puberty that a nude image of them may very well look like an 18 year old. Are you, as a website owner, criminally responsible if you take reasonable action to prevent it, even if you can't prevent everything. What ever the decision is for porn of older children, the same should be applied here.

Additionally, why stop there? Why not hold telecom companies and ISPs responsible for the actions of people using their infrastructure?

Apply all these arguments to child porn. If an ISP is willingly aiding someone in distributing it, they should be held criminally responsible.

Can I sue the state for having built the roads which allowed the drunk driver to damage my car -- not to mention suing the driver, the people who maintain the roads, the people who built the car, maintained the car, sold the car, made the liquor, sold the liquor, et cetera?

You are now becoming unreasonable. Should we punish the feds for allowing a nation wide internet that allows child porn? No... WELL THEN I GUESS WE HAVE TO LET CHILD PORN BE LEGAL (this is how your argument sounds).

The only reason people want to target the website owners is because the website owners are much more accessible targets.

You target the website owners because they are taking part in the distribution. If they take reasonable steps to ensure only consensually uploaded photos are allowed on their sites, then we don't go after them, even if some photos slip through the cracks initially.

Because a technology can be used for something distasteful does not mean we should ban that technology.

Is anyone suggesting we ban the internet or cameras? I don't see anyone taking that stance.

This is the first time I've seen a legitimate and on topic question the 'discuss your butt' guy could actually ask, and he wasn't the one to ask it.

While this is disgusting, there are people who do actually use that hole for sex, and it can get pretty much any STD. Just a fair warning to not let any guy, no matter how much they ask.

How do you differentiate between reddit and "revenge-porn" websites?

How do you differentiate between 4chan and a child porn website. Basically, if they clearly have some purpose other than hosting the illegal material and fully cooperate with the removal of the legal material and the tracking of those who uploaded/posted it, then they are safe.

If you attempt to penalize them, anyway... what happens when someone from /r/gonewild decides that posting was a mistake and claims they hadn't given permission for the image to be uploaded? How do you verify that consent was collected properly

How does gonewild even ensure the posters are 18+? While they base it off of look, there are childlike adults and adultlike children, so not only are they likely discriminating against childlike adults, they likely are hosting child porn of children who look very much like an adult.