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posted by chromas on Monday October 22 2018, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly

Al Jazeera:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:48AM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @01:48AM (#752293)

    Should you get a scarlet letter even if you did get paid to change clothes in front of a camera?
    How can anyone abandon a friend for making a product most of us consume?

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:02AM (9 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:02AM (#752300) Journal

    Don't worry, millennials will change these harmful perceptions of porn work and break the stigma. After all, sex work will end up being the career of choice for millennials and their descendants after many jobs are automated right out of existence. #NewNormal

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:31AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:31AM (#752312)

      Naah, millennials will fap to Miku [wikipedia.org] porn.

      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:04AM

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @03:04AM (#752322) Journal

        Poor millennials will fap to Miku with their Oculus Fapbooks. The upper crust millennials (atrophied "middle class") will be able to afford street whores, all of whom will be cosplayers. It will help that supply will wildly exceed demand. The richest millennials will engage in hedonistic pleasures and extreme sexual torture with their personal harems of millennial debt slaves.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:39AM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:39AM (#752316)

      Nope. Sex bots will leave almost no room for sex workers.

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:56AM (5 children)

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @02:56AM (#752321) Journal

        There might be a market for disposable sex slaves for the rich. Mistreating humans and making them cry is so much more fun than breaking a robot. A 0.1 percenter could lay waste to hundreds of women and/or men (and children?), teasing them with offers of becoming a live-in concubine before throwing them back out onto the street where they will shoot up super-heroin and beg for scraps.

        If you are right, I guess that leaves gladiatorial combat and experimental medical subjects. A secure digital streaming service could be able to relay live video to customers across the planet, with gambling done with cryptocurrencies. And there's a nearly infinite amount of drug combinations that could be tested out on "willing" participants.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:10AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:10AM (#752352)

          I think we have discovered the identity of our my mysterious troll ;)

          • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:46AM (1 child)

            by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @05:46AM (#752359) Journal

            Nah, no trolling here. It's just the future we're all barreling into at full speed.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:29AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 23 2018, @09:29AM (#752417)

              Well perhaps but it did remind me of the sicko troll fantasies that get posted here from time to time hence the comment. No sure if this is a whoosh or I was going off in too much of a tangent...

        • (Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:47PM (1 child)

          by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 23 2018, @04:47PM (#752523)

          I also really liked Altered Carbon : P

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          • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:15PM

            by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday October 23 2018, @07:15PM (#752568) Journal

            I've been saying variations on the same thing for years before that aired. But Altered Carbon does illustrate the point nicely, even if the premise requires a "black swan", namely the "stacks" (mind uploading). Maybe mind uploading can work in that way, but it seems like it would require many decades of development.

            The idea that we can continue to create enough new kinds of jobs in the face of rampant automation is laughable. Maybe automation won't wipe out every driver (armored cars, luxury chauffeurs), or every food service job (you could keep one or two employees at your McDonald's, and teppanyaki chefs could be considered performers, etc.). But it will eventually eliminate enough low-skilled positions to cause major problems. We could provide make-work government jobs or universal basic income in response, but I still see many people turning to sex work, and perhaps drug dealing if we still have a Drug War on (I think it will be ended... giving a junkie their government allowance of heroin allows you to keep tabs on them).

            Of course, sex workers will also be competing with automated sex bots, VR, etc. But a human sex worker (or slave) could be considered a novelty, like ice cream. As human labor becomes devalued, so will human lives. Perhaps income inequality will continue to increase, as the rich can just offshore their assets in response to tax threats (gotta pay for that UBI somehow). The rich will continue to support a lot of jobs, but some of them will be degrading. If you are worth almost nothing and there are many people who can take your place, you will be willing to do almost anything.

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