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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 enriquto »

batiudrami wrote: post #97
enriquto wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, OK basically? Indecent things are allowed. You can criticize them, of course, but they are still allowed. People have the right to write non-nice things about you (as long as it's not libel). They can write that they don't like you for whatever reason, or they can write that they get off thinking about you. There's freedom of expression to do stupid, non-nice and indecent shit.

What is that expression? Something like “if your best defence of something is that it isn’t against the law you have already lost”

If that is the case, it means that the people who attack you have already lost as well.

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

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Post by monkey_monkey »

enriquto wrote: post #95
monkey_monkey wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one is saying it's not legal. Most people here understand what libel is and what freedom of expression is. The point is that it's still a bit weird, creepy and unpleasant. This man can continue doing it, and I can continue thinking he's quite damaged.

> The point is that it's still a bit weird, creepy and unpleasant. This man can continue doing it, and I can continue thinking he's quite damaged. That's alright. I'm pretty much indifferent to the whole thing, but I still enjoyed the interview. Notice that the man may be "quite damaged", but still the first thing that he does is ask the interviewer if she was offended by her public photos being there, and offering t…

Enjoying the interview is utterly orthogonal to the point you originally made.

> "ask the interviewer if she was offended by her public photos being there, and offering to delete them."

You may see that as being polite, I see that as just another creepy power play, where he's now implying he has control over her pics.

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

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Post by yur3i__ »

amelius wrote: post #40
Pungsnigel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not if you have a fetisch for feet it seems...

Only because the internet doesn't transfer olfactory information.

My new rfc dropping tomorrow: hypersmell transfer protocol

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

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Post by pwdisswordfish0 »

mattmanser wrote: post #65
pwdisswordfish0 wrote: post #42

> So why not just look at feet on Instagram, or screenshot them for yourself? What do you get out of posting them to another website? This question has always been weird to me, but apparently there are people who don’t experience “this thing is good, i wish to contribute” or “this has brought me joy, i wish to give something back”. I mean, thankfully there are still enough others that we can have Wikipedia, where you…

It's not something they created. You're not really contributing, it's more akin to showing off your stamp collection, but with sexual undertones that make many feel uncomfortable.

Wikipedia contributions are also not something you “created”. In fact, you’re discouraged from adding information you have not taken from somewhere else. Archival, compilation, curation, categorization, making information legible and accessible and persistent is still work. See also archive.org. Whether the specific topic makes some people uncomfortable is beside the point. The question was “why do you try to help a website you like prosper without anything in return”. The reward is a more complete foot database and the good feeling of having helped.

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

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Post by gpvos »

oblio wrote: post #8
person_of_color wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet has caused society to devolve into idiocracy. Curtis Yavin might be proved correct.

You have the causality the other way. Society was always idiocracy, it was just obscured. If anything, the internet is one of our hopes for improving things. But change is rarely short and painless.

Ha, I just realized the same last week while listening to a podcast miniseries about the Habsburgs, who ruled a large part of Europe for about 1000 years, but not all of them were that bright. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06cqzx5

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

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Post by VBprogrammer »

gjulianm wrote: post #59
camillomiller wrote: post #38

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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…

Is this much different from what Pinterest and Google images do?

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

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Post by thendrill »

kleiba wrote: post #107

You know how every now and then someone comments "That's it, HN has officially become Reddit" or something along those lines? Well, I think this would be a good opportunity... (Usually, those comments get downvoted, so please feel free.)

Nahh nahh. You are absolutely right. I love it when the techno "elite" throws out their principles the moment something feels icky but has no set social norms only parallels that are to icky to think about in an objective way.

So you are absolutely correct. Hn is just reddit suddenly

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

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Post by fergie »

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…

In my younger days I would probably have agreed with you OP.

Now that I am older, I have come to appreciate the time, ambition, energy and reward that goes into being a public figure. I am also a bit wiser to the whole game of getting attention whilst pretending that you are not looking for it.

I feel like the best way to deal with this situation is just to accept that its all OK. Its OK to be an young, rich, attractive white woman. Its OK to publish pics of yourself on instagram. Its OK to be into feet. Its ok to like and share public content that you find online. The message of the article is that its a bit weird, but its OK. Lets not be too quick to shame and judge.

(The comments about Jennifer Aniston were interesting too- there is clearly a subtext here about the reach and power of women on these platforms, and again- this is all OK!)

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

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Post by stephvd »

ewwhite wrote: post #22
severak_cz wrote: post #7

For every weird niche hobby there is a guy who is creating literal database of something with almost scientific precision. Mix it with rule 34 and you got things like WikiFeet or some Czech site which is literal database of nude scenes in our whole cinema history (sorted by movies, actresses and director including screencaps of course).

I mean, mrskin.com

For the sake of curiosity, what does that link contain?
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