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I see a lot of confusion around this topic - sharing porn images without the person's consent should always remain illegal. But just the fact that you have some images on your hard drive? That shouldn't be a crime in itself.

If you have naked images of your ex-partner, they don't magically become revenge porn until the moment you share them without permission(at which point it's a crime and it's already punishable by existing laws).



I don't see the confusion. The claim upthread was that because "in computers" everything is "a number", nothing should be illegal.

Sharing MP3s? It's just a number.

Sending death threats? Just a number.

Directing relatives to the money drop so they may get their loved one back? Just a number.


Sure, but that's not the argument I am making, so perhaps you are replying to the wrong person. I agree that all information is "just a number" and you can outlaw numbers - but I can totally see why sharing certain information would be illegal(as in - the act of sharing). These two are not mutually exclusive.




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