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That’s not what happened; the actual story is very well known and so I won’t repeat it here but between the consent, and copyright issues it should have never b

That’s not what happened; the actual story is very well known and so I won’t repeat it here but between the consent, and copyright issues it should have never been used in this way. It’s been controversial vigorously years a symbolic of much wider problems; this is an overdue, but decent, decision. Would mention a this comment from the actual Lena in a 2019 film about all this, “ "I retired from modeling a long time ago. It's time I retired from tech, too... Let's commit to losing me."”

sprash 3y ago
This is also not what happened. I remembered that she once was proud of her work and the fact that her image was used so widely. Then FOSS and engineering in general was targeted by a wave of cultural marxist psyops that brought us useless stupid things like CoCs. And within that wave she was convinced by "activist" (=operatives) to demand the retirement of her image. It's the perfect angle to cause division and cause endless discussions about irrelevant BS. Congrats Psyop successfully deployed! (Probably CCP behind this in order to weaken western Engineering)
- ml-anon 3y ago
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- zokula 3y ago
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randunel 3y ago
That quote is supposedly made for an advertising documentary with that specific purpose, so she was likely paid for it. The real, unpaid quote is also in the article, "I’m really proud of that picture,". That being said, I support OP's sentiment, because the only other person quoted in the article is a man, who gets offended in the name of women.
- littlestymaar 3y ago
  > so she was likely paid for it. The real, unpaid quote is also in the article, "I’m really proud of that picture,". Let's not pretend low-budget documentary have the money to make somebody talk shit about something they like. There's also no contradiction between the two quotes: she is proud of the picture, but not very happy to see it being used like this decades after.

sprash 3y ago

This is also not what happened. I remembered that she once was proud of her work and the fact that her image was used so widely. Then FOSS and engineering in general was targeted by a wave of cultural marxist psyops that brought us useless stupid things like CoCs. And within that wave she was convinced by "activist" (=operatives) to demand the retirement of her image. It's the perfect angle to cause division and cause endless discussions about irrelevant BS. Congrats Psyop successfully deployed! (Probably CCP behind this in order to weaken western Engineering)

ml-anon 3y ago
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zokula 3y ago
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randunel 3y ago

That quote is supposedly made for an advertising documentary with that specific purpose, so she was likely paid for it. The real, unpaid quote is also in the article, "I’m really proud of that picture,". That being said, I support OP's sentiment, because the only other person quoted in the article is a man, who gets offended in the name of women.

littlestymaar 3y ago
> so she was likely paid for it. The real, unpaid quote is also in the article, "I’m really proud of that picture,". Let's not pretend low-budget documentary have the money to make somebody talk shit about something they like. There's also no contradiction between the two quotes: she is proud of the picture, but not very happy to see it being used like this decades after.