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South Korea is in the grip of a "spycam" epidemic with covert footage of sex, nudity, and urination posted online in what amounts to a "social death penalty" for thousands of female victims.
The footage may be taken surreptitiously by boyfriends or captured on covert devices as small as car keys. Daily camera checks are now part of life for cleaners in many public toilets.
The spy camera phenomenon has reached such epidemic proportions in tech-savvy South Korea that tens of thousands of women have taken to the streets to march for action.
Srsly?
Previously: South Koreans Protest Spy Cam Pornography
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by requerdanos on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:07AM (1 child)
The fact that people impose social penalties on the victims who have already been penalized here is a bad thing.
The people that impose those social penalties, who make it so that such an incident "affects the common individual" in a damaging way, are acting in a (common but) unreasonable, hurtful, and damaging way in response to video showing someone in a personal situation doing something ordinary such as using toilet facilities or having sex.
Their acts (shaming, shunning, or similar) are not only harmful but hypocritical, as they already knew or should have known that most people either participate in these ordinary tasks or aspire to. Yet upon the undesired release of a video demonstrating someone performing them, they consider it to be is evidence of the subject doing something wrong--as if they themselves would not be revealed to eliminate wastes and/or procreate should a similar video be published featuring themselves.
The wrong here is done by the one violating the privacy of others without regard to its import or impact. It's decidedly messed up that that should need to be pointed out, but throughout this thread it's evident that that fact isn't obvious to nearly as many as it should be.
The idea that this happens anywhere, much less is happening in a widespread way to a large group of victims, is, as I said, a cultural problem, and probably a larger problem than the invasion of privacy itself, as bad as that invasion of privacy is. If you yourself do that, or would, shame on you.
Now. "Looking at it another way" and considering the existence of similar videos made with actors:
BEFORE: Undesired video release is not evidence of wrongdoing by subject . Jerks who "shame" subject are a plague on society.
AFTER YOUR INSIGHT: Undesired video release is not evidence of wrongdoing by subject . Jerks who "shame" subject are a plague on society.
That is how the society in question works, yes. That's why I point out that that's a problem.
It's how society works in many cultures, but it is not how societies must work as a rule. If compassion and empathy are considered more important than they currently are in such cultures, the problem will be largely remedied.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2018, @06:49AM
> Jerks who "shame" subject are a plague on society.
Thanks for putting it well.