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On 12/3/2012 11:53 AM, Mouse wrote: Well I did qualify it with the "At least here in the US" part or tried too. I certainly wasn't trying to imply it's true everywhere. It certainly isn't. It may actually only be true in the US as most other countries have much stricter laws about this sort of thing. Free speech is something protected over almost every thing else in the US. There is no expectation of privacy in public places and so no protections. Individual jurisdictions have tried to pass laws making public photography and such illegal but, they are pretty much always struck down if anyone bothers to take it to court. I think you pretty much have to go from where the activity took place to decide legality or not. Pretty sure this was all a US event other then people that may have viewed the pictures. The servers, the companies, the victims, and the hated moderator were. Most countries probably wouldn't have cared one little bit about this honestly. Only in America do pictures of fully clothed women become porn somehow. We really have a sex issue here in the US. We seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to repress anything that might even remotely be seen as sexual. Now you can't even take pictures of your own children in a bath without worrying about being taken to jail. Men are afraid to help lost children in malls for fear of being accused of something. It's really gotten out of hand here.