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An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by Cederfjard »

thendrill wrote: post #49
Cederfjard wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s not at all the argument that was being made. I’m sure the grandparent poster would be more than happy for the content to stay up if they had the explicit consent of the people they’re collecting images of.

The images were publicly posted. How much more of a consent do we need? The images are not altered only cropped. According to this logic when journalists crop a picture of celebrities they should ask for dress designer consent to not include the dress? Some people like faces some people like feet. Why do we need consent for liking a certain part of picture?

OK, and that might be a fair counterpoint, then. I don’t have a thought out opinion on that. What you said above was completely different however and did not follow.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by errantspark »

tibbydudeza wrote: post #28
alexseman wrote: post #26

More and more s*t content on HN as years go by...

I found it interesting , reading for the umpteenth time why Smalltalk or LISP failed to get traction get's boring after a while.

I genuinely laughed out loud reading this comment. Much love.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by yosito »

camillomiller wrote: post #38
yosito wrote: post #33

TIL there's a wiki website for foot fetishists. I believe everyone has a right to their own fetishes. Nothing wrong with being into feet. But the thing that really puts me off about this interview and the WikiFeet website is the lack of consent. Uploading photos of someone without their consent is wrong. The fact that the purpose is to satisfy a fetish adds an extra layer of creepy. Regardless of how the interviewer…

I do not agree. These are photos posted publicly on Instagram or Facebook. Anyone could see them. This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures. And no, the fact that someone uploads them to a service whose ToS they have accepted makes no difference. You're posting something publicly? To me that's explicit consent that you want people to see them. If those pics were behind e…

When I upload photos to Instagram, I am not explicitly consenting to my photos being used for people's fetishes, even privately. I can't stop people from doing what they want privately with my public photos, and I know that, but I still find it morally wrong and disturbing. But I'm not sure that it's legal to republish someone's public Instagram photos on another website either. I'm no legal expert, but I believe it's still a copyright violation to copy someone's Instagram photos and use them as content in your own creations.

But legal or not, I think it ought to be considered common decency not to post photos of someone on a fetish website without asking for their explicit permission to do so.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by detaro »

thendrill wrote: post #49
Cederfjard wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s not at all the argument that was being made. I’m sure the grandparent poster would be more than happy for the content to stay up if they had the explicit consent of the people they’re collecting images of.

The images were publicly posted. How much more of a consent do we need? The images are not altered only cropped. According to this logic when journalists crop a picture of celebrities they should ask for dress designer consent to not include the dress? Some people like faces some people like feet. Why do we need consent for liking a certain part of picture?

That does not automatically grant you the right to repost them elsewhere in a different context.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by yosito »

thendrill wrote: post #39

If the year was 1950 your comment can sound something like: "sure homosexuals don't bother anyone, and I am not saying it is wrong, but regardless of that I am uncomfortable about it and it feels icky and gross to me, and I think it should be wrong..." Do you see the parallel?

Not at all. I'm not commenting on the fetish. I'm commenting on the lack of consent.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by Hallmane »

There's something peaceful about people who know they're 'weird' compared to the masses, but really don't care. Finding confidence in who (and what) I am is really my goal in life. Saying that, I'm not even that 'weird', I just always have thought about me from the perspective of others.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by throw14082020 »

yosito wrote: post #53
camillomiller wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not agree. These are photos posted publicly on Instagram or Facebook. Anyone could see them. This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures. And no, the fact that someone uploads them to a service whose ToS they have accepted makes no difference. You're posting something publicly? To me that's explicit consent that you want people to see them. If those pics were behind e…

When I upload photos to Instagram, I am not explicitly consenting to my photos being used for people's fetishes, even privately. I can't stop people from doing what they want privately with my public photos, and I know that, but I still find it morally wrong and disturbing. But I'm not sure that it's legal to republish someone's public Instagram photos on another website either. I'm no legal expert, but I believe it'…

Totally, but its such a grey line. If you posted some pictures and certain groups use it as their "personal materials" privately (without sharing), I'm not sure how we can stop that

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by gjulianm »

camillomiller wrote: post #38
yosito wrote: post #33

TIL there's a wiki website for foot fetishists. I believe everyone has a right to their own fetishes. Nothing wrong with being into feet. But the thing that really puts me off about this interview and the WikiFeet website is the lack of consent. Uploading photos of someone without their consent is wrong. The fact that the purpose is to satisfy a fetish adds an extra layer of creepy. Regardless of how the interviewer…

I do not agree. These are photos posted publicly on Instagram or Facebook. Anyone could see them. This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures. And no, the fact that someone uploads them to a service whose ToS they have accepted makes no difference. You're posting something publicly? To me that's explicit consent that you want people to see them. If those pics were behind e…

> This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures.

What you see as a technicality is actually a big difference. No one on wikiFeet would have seen the pictures of the interviewer if someone hadn't posted it.

Posting something is not explicit consent to do whatever with it. Would you say the same if these pictures were appearing on a shirt for example? Or if they were used in a movie, or in a newspaper article?

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Post by enriquto »

yosito wrote: post #53
camillomiller wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not agree. These are photos posted publicly on Instagram or Facebook. Anyone could see them. This website just aggregates them, but there's technically a live link to these pictures. And no, the fact that someone uploads them to a service whose ToS they have accepted makes no difference. You're posting something publicly? To me that's explicit consent that you want people to see them. If those pics were behind e…

When I upload photos to Instagram, I am not explicitly consenting to my photos being used for people's fetishes, even privately. I can't stop people from doing what they want privately with my public photos, and I know that, but I still find it morally wrong and disturbing. But I'm not sure that it's legal to republish someone's public Instagram photos on another website either. I'm no legal expert, but I believe it'…

What if it was just text links to the instagram accounts? What if it was iframes?
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