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I would argue showing nonconsentual explicit imagery is worse than iframing someomes app. Just show a non nsfw troll meme or block it outright.
by beardog 3y ago
I would argue showing nonconsentual explicit imagery is worse than iframing someomes app. Just show a non nsfw troll meme or block it outright.
- anononaut 3y agoHow would you argue that, exactly?
- beardog 3y agoImagine you were distributing my work without permission and in retaliation I emailed you gross-out sexually explicit imagery. That would both be a crime and be unethical by current standards. OP is not emailing people, but it is the same thing: revenge using explicit imagery. Except not only might the people behind the sites see the image but their visitors which probably include minors will too.
- datadrivenangel 3y agoBetter example is if someone is automatically forwarding your email newsletter and claiming it as their own. If you email them explicit imagery and they automatically forward it, that's on them. Not a crime, but a little crass in a funny way.
- ghastmaster 3y agoAdditionally, the image is I presume, used without permission from the creator.
- bobsmooth 3y agoKirk is an exhibitionist, he wouldn't mind.
- squidbeak 3y agoThe parasitic website is displaying the image. No iframe, no image.
- PeterisP 3y agoBoth legally and morally, intent matters far more than these technical details.
- squidbeak 3y agoI can't answer to the law, which besides will vary - and I reject the implication that a puerile prank is immoral. But that aside, taking it on as if there was any moral dimension, moral clarity is straightforward here: The parasite has to answer for the material it shows its visitors. If a butcher delivers outdated meat to nowhere, knowing his van will be hijacked, how can he possibly be blamed when the hijackers sell it to their customers? Edited to correct can (van!)
- nephanth 3y agoBut he can. He is clearly attempting to poison someone.
- beardog 3y agoYeah, it is for similar reasons that you (legally) shouldn't set booby traps against burglars.
- ericpauley 3y ago> If a butcher delivers outdated meat to nowhere, knowing his van will be hijacked, how can he possibly be blamed when the hijackers sell it to their customers? An obvious corrolary to this is the prohibition on booby traps.
- clort 3y agoI am not sure that actually, the intermediate site is even technically sending the image. As I understand it, the iframe is set up such that the users browser loads your site inside the frame and the intermediate site outside of the frame. If you serve a file then you are serving it directly to the browser. The intermediate site never sees it?
- justsomehnguy 3y agoI would argue what toning down everything and protecting everyone from any harm is the way to the safe new world.