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Why should pornography actors not have responsibilities for what they do? I don’t agree with this part where people who 1) put their faces in pornography and 2) put their faces in social media should not expect the two things to be correlated. Especially since the technology has already existed for some time and it cannot be stopped. Are we looking for regulation here? Is that exactly what we want, going back to cryptography export laws?

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You're in a relationship with someone you trust. It's enough trust that you one day let them (or maybe even ask them to) photograph or film you having sex with them (or even just nude photographs, the level of explicitness really doesn't matter.) Days, months, even years later, things end badly.

Your ex posts the photos/videos of you on Pornhub, or 4chan, or anywhere.

Someone uses facial recognition to match the photos to your social media profiles. And then you get doxxed, outed, and the photos are shared with all your friends and family.

A) Are you a "pornography actor" in this scenario, or someone who trusted the wrong person? Is everyone who has ever had nude photos or videos taken of them a "pornography actor"? B) Just because something is technically possible, does that mean it should be legal? Do the ethics or the thing ever come into play? C) Do you believe that that laws/regulations are only effective if they prevent someone from doing something, and not effective if they only punish after-the-fact? Are deterrent laws useless?

> Why should pornography actors not have responsibilities for what they do?

They should have a right for privacy.

How is the right to privacy being violated though?

Imagine you were a stripper or porn actress, your right to privacy wouldn't preclude someone recognizing you at the strip club or video.

Or suppose you went to the strip club or watched a video and then also happened to be on Facebook and saw the profile of someone you saw stripping at a strip club or in the video, matching the face and name in your head.

How is the slow case different fundamentally from the case where programming is used and throughput and speed is much higher and faster?

I mean would it be illegal for someone to just start going through Facebook profiles by hand trying to find an actress they just saw?

What if we're not talking about strippers or porn actresses. What if we're talking about some random person who let a partner take photos/videos of them, in confidence and in private?

In my opinion, if you let your partner do that, you deserve it. If you do that, and later come surprised if such situation happens, you are literally an idiot, not knowing in what age you live in.

So, understand what your fetish means and how it can backfire. Any age will have its own problems like that.

The right of privacy is violated if someone that wanted to stay anonomous is defamed. Doing searched automatically is also very different from doing it manually. But even if it's done manually, defaming someone still goes against their right to privacy.

The same principle would, of course, apply equally to this anonymous programmer.

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