from Hacker News

'Creep Shots' is a worrying new trend targeting women in public

by ophelia on 9/19/17, 9:07 AM with 14 comments

  • by chisleu on 9/19/17, 11:10 AM

    Are creepshots news? These threads on 4chan have been going on for as long as this oldf*g can remember.

    Are we really willing to allow this to be considered "sexual cyber violence"?

    Taking a photograph of someone in public is a legal act (in the USA anyway)? Being in public necessarily puts you into the public domain with no expectation of privacy.

    Can we agree that taking photographs of people without their consent is nothing more than extremely creepy? This isn't violence at all. That word is very dangerous. When misapplied, it leads the uninformed to make bad decisions, expecting that they can respond to "sexual cyber violence" with actual physical violence.

  • by thanksgiving on 9/19/17, 10:59 AM

    We have GCHQ taking over people's webcams[1] using taxpayer money but of course that's not a problem at all because we have much more "important" problems. I know Europe[2] has different standards of privacy but with Theresa May as the prime minister in London and a similarly evil person in charge in Australia, we really need to focus on what is important.

    Sure, I don't like invasion of privacy either. That being said, can I count on OP's support for a campaign to get the governments to stop taking over our cameras and microphones?

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_Nerve_%28GCHQ%29 [2] I know Australia is not in European continent but it might as well be for all I care [3] And yes, of course I know Australia gained independence from the UK but it doesn't matter for this conversation

  • by richthegeek on 9/19/17, 11:01 AM

    Hopefully this doesn't lead to some overblown moral panic for an issue that is almost non-existent.

    Photographers already have to be incredibly careful when shooting anywhere children (even fully clothed, rather than at a swimming pool) are present for fear of paranoid parents and overzealous police officers.

    It'd be nice if I could phrase this in a way that doesn't sound like a slippery-slope argument, although I suppose that could be indicative of something...

  • by probably_wrong on 9/19/17, 11:09 AM

    The article jumps around the issue so much, that I have no idea what the actual problem is (pictures of clothed women in public? The horror!).

    Rater than flag it, here's the link to the Urban Dictionary entry, (bluntly) explaining what they are actually talking about:

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=creepshot

  • by rodolphoarruda on 9/19/17, 10:49 AM

    On the other side of the same scale there was Bill Cunningham.

  • by nasredin on 9/19/17, 11:21 AM

    IIRC we had the whole moral outrage over this a year or two ago.

    Reddit ended up banning these folks. And of course, surprise, surprise, they rebranded into "Fashion Advice" and are still - hard - at it.