About the release of celebrity nudes, I’ve seen increasing calls for censoring the internet.
First of all, this won’t help.
Second, when the left and the right agree on something, it’s nearly always utterly flawed as it’s usually something big businesses want, or it’s desired by other interests inimical to the public good.
While the person or persons who hacked the phones and cloud accounts of the celebrities who had their private data stolen should be prosecuted, the call to censor the internet plays into the hands of the many, many groups who already wish to do so anyway.
Which will make it worse for everyone and not actually help with the problem.
It’s funny that we repeat the same mistakes over and over again as most people seem driven by momentary passions and propaganda. Not that I am some paragon of logic and deliberation, but I at least prefer a real fix rather than the symbolic gesture that lets all your friends know that you are the bien pensant rubber stamper that they’re expecting.
A real fix would involve people not being puritanical gorehounds pretending that they don’t take pictures of themselves. Half of the silents, boomers and early GenXers would have been selfie-ing their asses in high school if the technology had been available.
Nanny filters are a joke.
Agreed, the entire culture’s fear and hypocrisy around sex contributes to it all as well. Even many of the defenders of the people who had their photos stolen couch their defense in slut-shaming terminology borrowed from the other side.