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They actually have porn viewing history of individual North Americans and they will start publishing it.

Cool, maybe that might actually encourage your average layperson to be a little more aware of the stakes of privacy-related laws and measures.

Maybe 15 years ago that would've been a threat, but today? Unless we are talking about child porn, or some kind of snuff porn, I don't think many people will care. Then again, it would be easy to claim that whatever china says I watched is not true.

Let's be real who cares what Joe jerked off to? Not me. I will even say that maybe someone will build some universal porn recommendation out of such a data set.

Thankfully we're in an age where shaming is shameful.

I don't honestly think people would give a damn so long as the porn was legal.

I feel like they can leak a bunch of accurate histories and then for certain people they want to harm they can add a little bit of child porn to the logs so most people believe the logs are accurate but some key people get accused of being pedophiles. Electronic warfare is weird.

A lot of key people have been accused of being pedophiles, and in league with a person running an underaged sex trafficking ring, complete with a bizarre tropical pedophile island. Nothing happened - the person who could tie it all together was suicided in his jail cell, and the evidence obtained is doubtless consigned to the same dusty warehouse where the Top Men are keeping the Ark of the Covenant...

Top people wouldn't be brought down but middle level people can be ruined by this because there is no media protection. It could be part of an operation to take down an unsympathetic individual and replace them with a sympathetic one. Of course this is all purely speculative so none of it matters. I just think we live in a weird time. I agree that for many people the media kills the story and we're all expected to move on, and we all play a part in that.

How am I to know it is accurate though? I can write up a "log" of all the porn you watched over the last year right now - the hard part is doing a little research to figure out where you live and get some idea of your likely travel.

The log will be all faked, but when it is my word against yours... I doubt you even have logs of your real activity to counter with and so my logs will be pretty damming evidence.

I meant that if a bunch of individuals saw their own leaked logs and knew they were accurate, they could be led to believe all logs are accurate. But I agree that this kind of chicanery may not even be needed to pull off such a scam.

Also Grindr is Chinese-owned.

An TikTok. Lots of people uploading nude content that CCP can deidentify.

Source?

I've witnessed the porn viewing history of individuals in a goddamn Applebee's.

What are we going to learn? People like to jerk it?

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