Last week, The View panellist and veteran actress Whoopi Goldberg suggested that women shouldn’t take nude photos of themselves.
And if they do, they deserve to have them released to the public.
They deserve to have the ownership of their bodies transferred to a complete stranger, all because they stripped down one day, found the good lighting in their rooms and snapped a few photos.
Watch Whoopi Goldberg discuss Bella Thorne’s recent hacking violation on The View. Post continues after.
On June 15, actress Bella Thorne, known for her roles in Shake it Up and The Duff, shared nude photos of herself on Twitter after a hacker threatened to release them.
In the post, she said she felt “gross” and “watched” – a result of trauma at the hands of what was, by every definition, a crime committed against her.
Fuck u and the power u think you have over me. I’m gonna write about this in my next book???????????? pic.twitter.com/0Ep0iXgW51
— BITCHIMBELLATHORNE (@bellathorne) June 15, 2019
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I wonder how Whoopi would feel if her financials got leaked, via the cloud? Or details of her personal relationships, her home address or number..... it's the same thing.
This woman's property was stolen from her, using technology. Doesn't matter what the information/file/nude photo... it's stealing. They then went one step further and added blackmail to the mix. How could Whoopi think that's ok?!
I can't stand Whoopie on The View, but I kind of agree with her on this one.
While it's never ok for private photos to be shared without the permission of the person involved, I do think that by now, most people should be aware that if you do take nude photos of yourself and save them in the cloud or somewhere else, then you risk having those photos made public.
And of course this risk is much greater if you're a celebrity. It seems to me that if you really want to avoid private photos like this being made public, then the most logical thing is to avoid taking them in the first place. That's not "victim shaming", it's just common sense.
Or, here's another thought. How about we harshly prosecute people who steal the digital property of other people and use it to blackmail them.
And, you could say the same for people who use banking apps, or keep other information on the cloud. At the end of the day, if you do this to someone, you should be punished.