Jennifer Lawrence's comments regarding nude photos

[Anonymous]

I wonder--JP Morgan just had a bunch of information hacked, including client account information. If Lawrence had her account hacked, would people be blaming her for having an online account? Do people really think that we shouldn't expect any level of privacy online? That we have no right to complain when personal information of whatever sort is stolen?

And I agree with Lawrence--the people looking at the nude pictures aren't physically assaulting her, but they are complicit in a crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's akin to rape, but it's a horrible violation. I don't think victim blaming is very appropriate (though it's always the preferred sport on DCUM). And she didn't put it on the Internet. The hacker(s) did.

I agree. But I also think that her exaggerating her victimization is problematic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder--JP Morgan just had a bunch of information hacked, including client account information. If Lawrence had her account hacked, would people be blaming her for having an online account? Do people really think that we shouldn't expect any level of privacy online? That we have no right to complain when personal information of whatever sort is stolen?

And I agree with Lawrence--the people looking at the nude pictures aren't physically assaulting her, but they are complicit in a crime.

Yes, you have no privacy online, don't upload your nudes. If you have a higher level of security like a bank maybe you will fair better. Have you noticed the ads on DCUM utilize tracking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's akin to rape, but it's a horrible violation. I don't think victim blaming is very appropriate (though it's always the preferred sport on DCUM). And she didn't put it on the Internet. The hacker(s) did.

I agree. But I also think that her exaggerating her victimization is problematic.

She wants some airtime

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder--JP Morgan just had a bunch of information hacked, including client account information. If Lawrence had her account hacked, would people be blaming her for having an online account? Do people really think that we shouldn't expect any level of privacy online? That we have no right to complain when personal information of whatever sort is stolen?

And I agree with Lawrence--the people looking at the nude pictures aren't physically assaulting her, but they are complicit in a crime.

Yes, you have no privacy online, don't upload your nudes. If you have a higher level of security like a bank maybe you will fair better. Have you noticed the ads on DCUM utilize tracking.

She uploaded them to a password-protected service. One would have thought that Apple could provide reasonable security. And banks get hacked--people with JP Morgan accounts demonstrably did not fare better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's akin to rape, but it's a horrible violation. I don't think victim blaming is very appropriate (though it's always the preferred sport on DCUM). And she didn't put it on the Internet. The hacker(s) did.

I agree. But I also think that her exaggerating her victimization is problematic.

What's problematic about it? If someone hacked your accounts and stole nude photos of you (that perhaps you took for your spouse) and made them available for anyone to look at, you wouldn't feel horrible? Strangers can see you, and you can't do anything about it? That is a huge and ongoing violation. She didn't leak them--they were stolen.

[Anonymous]

BRING BACK POLAROIDS!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder--JP Morgan just had a bunch of information hacked, including client account information. If Lawrence had her account hacked, would people be blaming her for having an online account? Do people really think that we shouldn't expect any level of privacy online? That we have no right to complain when personal information of whatever sort is stolen?

And I agree with Lawrence--the people looking at the nude pictures aren't physically assaulting her, but they are complicit in a crime.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder--JP Morgan just had a bunch of information hacked, including client account information. If Lawrence had her account hacked, would people be blaming her for having an online account? Do people really think that we shouldn't expect any level of privacy online? That we have no right to complain when personal information of whatever sort is stolen?

And I agree with Lawrence--the people looking at the nude pictures aren't physically assaulting her, but they are complicit in a crime.

+1

The (big) difference is that there is no longer any way to avoid having financial information online; I'm not aware of any financial institution that forswears computers entirely. So if you want to use the banking system in any way, you will be vulnerable to online hacking. And it's very hard, if not impossible, to live in the modern American economy without any access to banking: no mortgage, credit/debit cards, checking account, etc. It would be about as common, and about as practical, as trying to live off the electrical grid.

Whereas with nude selfies, it's pretty easy and obvious to avoid having this material online. I'm middle aged but I can't imagine any reasonable argument in favor of having nudie pics uploaded to the cloud. Frankly I don't see why anyone, particularly not a much photographed actress, needs nude pictures at all, but maybe I'm just old. Either way, no need whatsoever to put them online. And therefore infinitely more complicit in their eventual hacking and dissemination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder--JP Morgan just had a bunch of information hacked, including client account information. If Lawrence had her account hacked, would people be blaming her for having an online account? Do people really think that we shouldn't expect any level of privacy online? That we have no right to complain when personal information of whatever sort is stolen?

And I agree with Lawrence--the people looking at the nude pictures aren't physically assaulting her, but they are complicit in a crime.

Yes, you have no privacy online, don't upload your nudes. If you have a higher level of security like a bank maybe you will fair better. Have you noticed the ads on DCUM utilize tracking.

She uploaded them to a password-protected service. One would have thought that Apple could provide reasonable security. And banks get hacked--people with JP Morgan accounts demonstrably did not fare better.

Why would you ever think that of Cloud service-did you not read the terms of service.

[Anonymous]

She wasn't uploading them anywhere. When you take a photo on your phone, if you are connected to the wifi at your house chances are that photo will be uploaded to your cloud -- even if you delete it. It's just the way the cloud works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder--JP Morgan just had a bunch of information hacked, including client account information. If Lawrence had her account hacked, would people be blaming her for having an online account? Do people really think that we shouldn't expect any level of privacy online? That we have no right to complain when personal information of whatever sort is stolen?

And I agree with Lawrence--the people looking at the nude pictures aren't physically assaulting her, but they are complicit in a crime.

Yes, you have no privacy online, don't upload your nudes. If you have a higher level of security like a bank maybe you will fair better. Have you noticed the ads on DCUM utilize tracking.

She uploaded them to a password-protected service. One would have thought that Apple could provide reasonable security. And banks get hacked--people with JP Morgan accounts demonstrably did not fare better.

Why would you ever think that of Cloud service-did you not read the terms of service.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She wasn't uploading them anywhere. When you take a photo on your phone, if you are connected to the wifi at your house chances are that photo will be uploaded to your cloud -- even if you delete it. It's just the way the cloud works.

NO thats an option you choose to use, you can deactivate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BRING BACK POLAROIDS!!!

Even Polaroid pics can be (and have been) stolen. It's just harder to do. You would have to sneak/break into someone's bedroom and rummage through their dresser (or wherever to find them).

Putting nude pics on a Cloud is more akin to storing them in a public gym locker. Yes, no one should break into your locker but the opportunity and potential is always there so we tend not to put large bundles of cash or nudie selfies in our gym lockers...

[FruminousBandersnatch]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder--JP Morgan just had a bunch of information hacked, including client account information. If Lawrence had her account hacked, would people be blaming her for having an online account? Do people really think that we shouldn't expect any level of privacy online? That we have no right to complain when personal information of whatever sort is stolen?

And I agree with Lawrence--the people looking at the nude pictures aren't physically assaulting her, but they are complicit in a crime.

+1

The (big) difference is that there is no longer any way to avoid having financial information online; I'm not aware of any financial institution that forswears computers entirely. So if you want to use the banking system in any way, you will be vulnerable to online hacking. And it's very hard, if not impossible, to live in the modern American economy without any access to banking: no mortgage, credit/debit cards, checking account, etc. It would be about as common, and about as practical, as trying to live off the electrical grid.

Whereas with nude selfies, it's pretty easy and obvious to avoid having this material online. I'm middle aged but I can't imagine any reasonable argument in favor of having nudie pics uploaded to the cloud. Frankly I don't see why anyone, particularly not a much photographed actress, needs nude pictures at all, but maybe I'm just old. Either way, no need whatsoever to put them online. And therefore infinitely more complicit in their eventual hacking and dissemination.

Ok, so take her storage off the net and how you do feel? Let's say she and a lover had used the Polaroid camera posted above, and all the pictures were in a safe in her house when her house was robbed. The thieves found the hard copy photos and posted them on the internet for all to see. Do you think that's a different scenario? She believed they were in a safe location because she trusted the security of that location in the same way we trust companies to keep our financial and medical information safe. It's not like she posted them on her FB page and then got upset when people looked at them. We don't look at JP Morgan or any disclosure of personal medical information and say, "Meh, that's what they deserve for using a company that stores data electronically. My doctor is safely in the 1950s and still uses paper files!"

I'm a guy, and Jennifer Lawrence is a beautiful and sexy woman, and if she were to willingly do a nude scene in a movie or a spread in Playboy I would happily enjoy it because that would be her choice to share. I have not gone looking for and do not want to see pictures stolen from her because the display is not by her choice.

There's so much in the media today about how women deal with objectifying looks, catcalls and harassing behavior just for the crime of being female and being in public that I'm astounded at the victim blaming on a site that has a majority female membership. Even though she is a celebrity, she now has to walk around wondering if every person she meets, every guy she interacts with, has seen her private, nude photos.