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In reply to the discussion: revenge porn site operator cries at his sentencing [View all]calimary
(88,976 posts)Glad you're here. Ordinarily I might agree with you. But the punishment (and YES there needs to be punishment) should fit the crime. Granted we're all in a new age with cyber-crimes. But let this be a cautionary tale. You do shit like this - then you stand a very major chance of fucking yourself over, BIGTIME.
After all - who knows how many people saw and maybe dowloaded their own personal copies of some if not all of those photos. The victims have the proverbial snowball's chance in Hell of undoing that damage to their privacy, AND their reputation or retrieving those photos and wiping them off the internet or seeking redress against the schmucks who may have slobbered over or kept copies - or both!
Maybe it might discourage somebody else from trying to pull that shit and making a buck off of it. I have no problem with this sentence. He kinda EARNED it.
Besides, this strikes me as just All Kinds of Bad. Not JUST the extortion part. Privacy violations (how much of this was done with any of the women's permission), bullying, cyber theft, cyber assault, defamation of character, and I guarantee you many of these victims very likely feel as though they've been raped. And in public, no less!