Monday, May 17, 2004
Up-skirt law to destroy mobile phone biz?
Following on from the issues highlighted a few days ago, the Register follows up with a perspective on how this may well kill off a killer-app for 3G phones. But one nugget buried in their article is reproduced here:
Now, I'm sure the writer of the article has done more research on this than I have, but whilst many of the images may well be posed, there are also a substantial number that I am less sure are professionally modelled.
For sure, boredom will set in - it always does with such stuff. But lots of damage can be done in the meantime. I am in favour of the internet reflecting all of humantiy, good and bad: it is not media and entertainment, created by executives for us to consume, it is us (or at least a reflection of the verbose, more extrovert and technically-savvy, publicity-aware us). We have to sort out sensible balances between privacy and reality.
Following on from the issues highlighted a few days ago, the Register follows up with a perspective on how this may well kill off a killer-app for 3G phones. But one nugget buried in their article is reproduced here:
Literally hundreds of websites advertise up-skirt pictures, and five seconds with Google (plus a popup blocker!) will persuade most sensible people that these are not "candid" pictures. They're posed by professional models.
Now, I'm sure the writer of the article has done more research on this than I have, but whilst many of the images may well be posed, there are also a substantial number that I am less sure are professionally modelled.
For sure, boredom will set in - it always does with such stuff. But lots of damage can be done in the meantime. I am in favour of the internet reflecting all of humantiy, good and bad: it is not media and entertainment, created by executives for us to consume, it is us (or at least a reflection of the verbose, more extrovert and technically-savvy, publicity-aware us). We have to sort out sensible balances between privacy and reality.
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