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Please change the title to include the string NSFW. [EDIT: Thanks for updating. Nudity, no matter how innocent, should probably have this warning.]
by jxcole 15y ago
Please change the title to include the string NSFW.
[EDIT: Thanks for updating. Nudity, no matter how innocent, should probably have this warning.]
- kleiba 15y agoJust out of curiosity: what is it that makes you think the pictures aren't SFW? Is it the nudity? This a serious question, as I suppose you're saying it's NSFW in the US, but I don't think there would be a problem in my country. Thanks. EDIT: Okay, from the comments so far I now understand it's not so much that there's nudity in some of the pictures, but that some of them contain children. Even though it's still nuts I think (not all pictures containing nudity are pornographic, and none of the ones here are even close to pornography), I get the idea now. Thanks again.
- sp332 15y agoNSFW means Not Safe For Work. There are places where nude photos on a work computers can get you fired immediately.
- arethuza 15y agoSo people must live in fear of clicking on links that contain a few nipples? [Edit: Presumably just female nipples?]
- angelbob 15y agoYes, alas.
- swah 15y agoStartup opportunity?
- pkteison 15y agoYes, American employers are pretty terribly paranoid when it comes to nipples. What it boils down to is they adopt a strong policy as a defense against lawsuits, so if they are ever dragged into court by an employee claiming a 'hostile work environment', they can point to their policy enforcement as proof that they aren't a 'hostile environment'. In practice the policies don't just ban porn, they ban anything that could possibly make anybody feel uncomfortable or objectified, so swimsuit calendars or even dirty jokes can get you fired. So the upshot is, if a site isn't careful about identifying links to naked photos, it is no longer safe to read it at work. Even some sites that sometimes have racy ads are best avoided at big companies (who tend to have bigger legal departments, lawsuit exposure, and stricter policies). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_environment_sexual_harassment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_environment_sexual_hara...
- dolle 15y agoOuch. Sometimes, the US sounds like how DDR would have been if it had been run by conservative christians.
- mynameishere 15y agoSigh. It's feminists he's talking about. People hate conservatives and Christians with an irrationality I just can't understand.
- burgerbrain 15y agoThey meddle. The only reason I ever know what somebody is is because they told me (annoyed me), or otherwise made their issue my own. I don't hate buddhists. Do you know why? Because they don't go out of their way to bug me regularly.
- andrewflnr 15y agoRegarding Christians anyway, you might be interested in John 15:18-19, and the following verses, assuming you're not aware of them. We expect a certain amount of irrational hate.
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- jules 15y agoNot just in the US, but also in Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Syria and Iran.
- cobrausn 15y agoAlso in Australia, at a bare minimum. I'm remembering the banker gaffe from a few months ago.
- mahmud 15y agoMeh. I had two jobs in Australia, and in both places people would call everyone at work to look at funny porn they have been forwarded. Men & women.
- alastairpat 15y agoHe didn't lose his job in the end: http://www.smh.com.au/business/dave-the-banker-keeps-his-job-20100205-ni0q.html http://www.smh.com.au/business/dave-the-banker-keeps-his-job...
- rmc 15y agoPhotos of topless women are usually not suitable in most western workplaces.
- tjogin 15y agoThe one in this specific example is likely ok in most western workplaces, outside of the US. Europeans don't freak out nearly as much over this kind of stuff as Americans do. It isn't porn, as anyone with a pair of eyes can clearly see.
- teach 15y agoTrue, but in America the the 'before' photo is especially problematic. Though it clearly isn't pornographic, a topless (presumably) under-aged girl is potentially job-hazardous. For example, I'm a public high-school teacher; I'm quite glad I waiting until I was home from work to check out the link. Having that image in my work browser cache is a risk I'd prefer not to take.
- cobrausn 15y agoAlso, we are very litigation happy over here. If I were a workplace, I'd be worried about a lawsuit over a 'hostile work environment' to be honest.
- rmc 15y agoThere is not one 'European attitude'. French attitude would be different from British attitude. Despite what the Daily Mail says, UK is 'European'
- tjogin 15y agoI've never claimed there to be a singular European attitude.
- wyclif 15y agoAmericans, in my experience, don't "freak out" about it. It's really all about litigation.
- ataggart 15y agoIn the US, it's entirely possible that an image on that site could get someone charged with possession of child pornography.
- antoncohen 15y agoI don't think anything on that site qualifies as pornography or child pornography in the US. "Pornography" is not a legal term, but is generally defined as "intended to cause sexual excitement" [1]. "Child Pornography" is a legal term, with similar definition in law [2]. If you look at the pictures there are a lot that show topless or covered-nude young males. They are not child pornography because they do not display "sexually explicit conduct." It's not illegal to take pictures of your naked baby [3]. If the under-age males in the photographs were depicted performing fellatio on a sex toy it would be child pornography, no matter how much clothing they had on. Nudity != Pornography. [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pornography http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pornography [2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_18_00002256----000-.html http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_18_00002256----000... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region#Child_pornography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region#Child_por...
- potatolicious 15y agoAs with all things even remotely approaching the label "child pornography", caution is better than not. The fact that a charge wouldn't stand up in a court of law is one thing, your reputation and life is another. Being accused of anything even remotely like this is enough to end one's useful life. Our society can't give two shits that you were exonerated, they just care that you were accused.
- buff-a 15y agoYou are living in fear. There is an entire rational society in the USA that is alive and well. Its just not as large as the ignorant, irrational one.
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- Brajeshwar 15y agoI suggest using the http://nsfw.in/ http://nsfw.in/ shortener and safer linking service for such NSFW links. (Disclaimer: Site run by my team.)