17?!
I thought we were talking about actual kids - ones that haven't even been to primary school yet
You started off saying "porn (including nude photos) of actual children" which in legal terms is anything under 18 because child and minor are equivalent in legal terms.
So you're only referring to nude photographs of girls aged five or younger in kindergarten or preschool when you talk about this being unethical? 6yos are in 1st grade, no concerns there?
It's psychological self-harm.
Not sure what you mean. How is "I was being threatened by someone so I acquiesced to their demands" self-harming?
If a guy holds me up at gunpoint and I give him cash from my wallet, is that psychological self-harm?
I think however cucked that would feel I'd get over it because I could empathize with the traumatic state my aggressor put me in, and also realized I was in fear for my life.
Like should we say that a rape victim who doesn't fight back hard enough is "harming herself" by not risking death by fighting a superior opponent?
If you mean in the sense "you're harming your own pride by not resisting an abuser to the utmost" it seems like excessive expectations.
And yes, technically, it's the one coercing the kid who's doing the harming, but that's my point anyway.
Correct, but the actual harm comes from the threats, not the photographing.
IE there's a big diff between "hey you're cute, want to take a naked bubble bath together? It's okay if you don't" and "I'll murder your parents if you don't take naked bubble bath with me" psychologically.
Seems like you're only acknowledging the 2nd kind exists.
Yep, it's his fault then, although the repairman is an asshole for yoinking all of that data.
In fairness to him, he actually turned it over to the FBI and only because he was concerned that it depicted Hunter molesting children.
Even if Hunter did not overtly threaten Natalie Biden to give him a footjob, there's a huge power imbalance not just because he's older but because he's wealthier, more connected, etc.
And yes, "private" cloud storage is never actually private unless it's encrypted. This is why no one should ever store their sensitive files online. And if I had photos of myself naked, let alone videos, I would encrypt them even if stored locally because of shit like that repairman thing.
True, but even if there's not a "reasonable" expectation of privacy, it still exhibits some intent of it.
Like buying a shitty lock for your front door.
Also even if you didn't lock your front door it doesn't make it okay for people to rob you.