`` Blame Photo Thieves, Not The Female Victim, By Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. Essay

Susan Brownmiller's essay voices her feminist view towards pornographic material. Her claim is that without restriction, the first amendment has allowed women to be publicly perceived as objects.

In 2013, a man, investigators named the “Sexual Cyber Terrorist” extorted over 350 women by hacking into their email accounts and baiting them into giving him nude photos. If the women did not comply with his demand he threatened to hack into their social media accounts and posting photos that he allegedly already had of them. Another ploy to obtain these photos from women would be to pose as close friends and get them to send nude photos. After a thorough investigation the FBI found more than 3,000 nude to seminude photos of victims. The “Sexual Cyber Terrorist”, Karen (Gary) Kazaryan was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to all charges.

Visualize living in a society where slut-shaming occurs every day and someone's mistake is publicized to the point that everyone knows what happened. Some people would believe this would be referring to the Puritan society that existed during the 1600’s, but unfortunately, this is common situations that appear in today’s society. A “famous” person's error can show up on social media, covers of magazines, and every talk show throughout America. For example, recently the break up of the beloved Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie appeared everywhere in less than a day. The breakup sparked news on twitter, talk shows such as Wendy Williams, and prevailed to be the lead story on every tabloid by the following day. Even though our society did not devise

With malicious attacks against computer users on the rise, several high-profile cases of webcam hacking have begun to surface resulting in policy change, varying degrees of judicial punishment, and large settlements. The following is an examination of a civil and criminal case in which the plaintiffs were successful in their claims against non-governmental webcam hacking.

On 3 October 2015, feminist and celebrity entrepreneur, Amber Rose, hosted the Amber Rose SlutWalk in Los Angeles. The event was highly successful in its “cause against sexual injustice, victim blaming, derogatory labelling, and gender inequality” with activism not only taking place in the streets of Los Angeles but through extensive online projects to push the movement throughout the online sphere (Amber Rose SlutWalk 2015). Respectively, Johnston and Longhurst (2009, 159-160) emphasise that “sexed bodies are constructed through different social and cultural entanglements and through different spaces and places” and that the internet acts as an important source of material on sex and sexuality, reflecting and reinforcing social trends and conversations that are happening in ‘real’ space. Johnston and Longhurst’s (2009) notions of sexed bodies and spaces, theoretical ideas surrounding third-wave feminism and postfeminism, as well as arguments encompassing the contemporary SlutWalk movement itself, allow for a detailed analysis of the role of the internet in modern activism and, in particular, in the recent Amber Rose SlutWalk. Ultimately, the Amber Rose SlutWalk illustrates how online space can be used in challenging the complex power relations that surround sexuality and in furthering the inclusion of diverse sexual bodies.

The circumstance presented to us involved Jane consuming alcohol and removing her top at a party. After realizing what she has done, she immediately puts her shirt back on. However, Joe took pictures of Jane and posted them on his personal website. Jane politely asks Joe to remove the photographs of her, but Joe says no. Joe’s argument is that “You were free to do what you wanted to, and I was free to record it.” Joe is technically correct; Jane was free to do whatever she wanted. However, if Jane asked him to remove the photographs nicely, why is Joe being a inconsiderate and not removing them. Anyone with morals would remove the photographs. As a matter of fact, someone with values would not have posted the photographs in the first place. How is Joe benefiting from his website full of naked women? Truthfully, it would be in the Joe’s best interest to take the website. What will his future or current employer think about him? How will his future spouse feel about him degrading women?

The excessive load of sexual objectification seen in the media delineates the lucid image of the sexist culture we live in, but it is the obscurity of this misogyny that keeps us from taking action.

Every day in our lives we make choices. But are the choices we make really our own? No one threatened Jane physically or forced her to take off her top, but was it an option for Jane to say “no” in the way the environment was structured at that moment? The nature of “choices” is very complex, and each of our actions is influenced by outside forces, which we cannot control. The choices we make also shape the culture in which we live, and Joe doesn’t seem to understand that. Through a deep analysis and some obvious remarks, I will make Joe see why it is not only morally but also systematically correct why he should take down both Jane’s and the other girls’ photos.

One thing that these women all have in common is the negative perception that the media has had of them because sometimes they wear revealing clothes or take selfies. Media’s perceptions of women is both counteractive and counterproductive to the feminist movement of today.

News travels quickly with the amount of access Americans have to technologies like the internet. Within hours of learning about someone’s privacy being violated, news networks, as well as pop culture media, spread information of how a celebrity’s nude photos have been “leaked” from the cloud storage database or hacked from the individual’s phone itself. Prime examples of the celebrity leaked photo scandals include “Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Anna Kendrick, Christina Hendricks” (Robert Hackett), who all fell prey to hackers, who gained access to the celebrities’ iCloud accounts. Unfortunately, these individuals will not be able to regain the privacy they once had to the information that was shared amongst the world’s internet users. The victims did, however, receive closure as the Federal Bureau of Investigation narrowed down the heinous act to two households in Chicago (Robert Hackett). The problems clearly displayed by this act are the false trust American society places in technology and the fact cyber-crime is a reaction based crime, meaning that unless it is predicted, nothing can be done other than to react once the violation has occurred. This raises the question of how are individuals to establish security so that there is crime prevention rather than damage control after the crime has occurred?

The pornographic industry has not lost their viewers, and the constant leaks of female celebrity personal pictures demonstrate that society has always sexualized women’s body for their pleasure. McRobbie states that there is a modern movement where women are free to choose for themselves. Females are choosing to go topless to prove breasts are merely body parts. Celebrities such as Bella Hadid and Rihanna walk the streets with see-through tops, making the appearance of their breasts nothing but a fashion statement. Many allegations are made saying self-exposing breasts comes from a lack of self-respect. The question arises, is it only acceptable for women to be topless for the pleasure of others? Not in the current pop culture world. Women are free to make their decisions, and they have decided their breasts are not to be sexualized. If a woman’s breast is out, she is doing it out of choice and for her

The analysis reflects on how ICloud became successful. The investigation was very successful in establishing the attackers, and their motive evidenced different people pleading guilty for the attack. The access of ICloud continues to increase with a number of cases being reported after the 2014 instance. The hackers managed to access the ICloud by convincing the users to log in by opening a specific email that is purported to be either from Google or Apple companies. The hackers emphasize the account security is likely to be compromised and the user need to act swiftly. The various photos that have surfaced on the various internet is a clear indication as to why the users act swiftly to the email. The ICloud is using to save photos, and this has led to people saving videos and their nude photos (Revolvy, 2014). In the event an email arises purporting the security will be compromised makes them act very quickly only to enable the hacker to attain the various credential that is fundamental to accessing the ICloud such as the passwords. The celebrities purpose to protect their image, and this makes them vulnerable to this issue of ICloud photo leak. The attacker is able to convince them to login in order to upgrade their security to avoid their nude photos and videos to leak. In the attempt to comply and heighten their security in order for their nude photos and other intimate videos to

Prime examples of the celebrity leaked photo scandals include “Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Anna Kendrick, Christina Hendricks”2, who all fell prey to hackers, who gained access to the celebrities’ iCloud accounts. Unfortunately, these individuals will not be able to regain the privacy they once had. The information that was shared amongst the world’s internet users and is now permanently available. The victims did, however, receive closure as the Federal Bureau of Investigation narrowed down the heinous act to two households in Chicago2. The problems clearly displayed by this act are the false trust American society places in technology and the fact cyber-crime is a reaction based crime, meaning that unless it is predicted, nothing can be done other than to react once the violation has occurred. This raises the question of how are individuals to establish security so that there is crime prevention rather than damage control after the crime has occurred?

In his article “Night Words: High Pornography and Human Privacy”, author George Steiner (1998) claims that people are being emotionally numbed, and stripped of their humanity due to the publicization of personal information, and increasing acceptance of sexualisation in modern America. He suggests that sexual relations are a facet through which personal development occurs. And as people are exposed to more provocative imagery, whether through advertising or other digital means, they omit discovering for themselves this vital aspect of human identity. Rather, they have it discovered for them through pornography, or erotica. Also referenced in the article is George Orwell, who knew of the dangers of “standardization of sexual life,” and it how it goes hand in hand with totalitarian rule; as a result, people’s freedom to express themselves is stifled by the fact that their innermost wants and desires are expressed for them.

Revenge pornography, also called nonconsensual pornography, has become quite the controversial topic over the past few years. This issue has affected and infiltrated the lives of people including everyday Janes to celebrities like Emma Watson and Mischa Barton. This article outlines someone who fell prey to this harassment and was victimized by her ex-boyfriend. It also goes in to other experiences and the legal ramifications and paths that are available, shedding light on the issue in its entirety.