The Blind Spot: What our #MeToo Society is Overlooking About Consent
What would your reaction be if the CEO of a company told his female employees they needed to have sex with him in order to get a raise?
How about if the casting director of a film told auditioning actresses that they must have sex with him to get the part?
You’d likely be quick to condemn the actions of these individuals. As would most people in today’s society.
Especially since the #MeToo movement, most people intuitively understand that money or employment opportunities should not be used to pressure people into accepting unwanted sex. We understand that sexual consent is a very serious, delicate thing, which must be given totally freely. If someone doesn’t want sex, it is wrong to use other means to persuade them into having sex.
Yet despite this being broadly understood, there is one domain in which our #MeToo society forgets this truth: Prostitution.
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The 2024 Dirty Dozen List will be revealed next week, April 10th, at 11:00 am EST!
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Google is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints
The number of nonconsensual
deepfake porn videos online has exploded
since 2017. As the harmful videos have spread, thousands of women—including Twitch streamers, gamers, and other content creators—have complained to Google websites hosting the videos and tried to get the tech giant to remove them from its search results.
A WIRED analysis of copyright claims regarding websites that host deepfake porn videos reveals that thousands of takedown requests have been made, with the frequency of complaints increasing. More than 13,000 copyright complaints—encompassing almost 30,000 URLs—have been made to Google concerning content on a dozen of the most popular deepfake websites.
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