Oh, that's an interesting ethical question itself -- making a private post suddenly public! Tho' reading comments on your LJ i see that mystickeeper suspected that most people commenting in the post would be comfortable with it being made public since she knows them and knows they talk about fanfic publicly anyway.
What i find especially interesting about the comments on mystickeeper's fiction/fanfiction post is that the comment thread turned so tense. I did think that antarcticlust was being a little inflammatory, tho' entirely unintentionally. It's interesting to think about why fanfiction can be such a tense, inflammatory subject to discuss -- even among people who occasionally read it and bear it no ill will overall.
Speaking of photos and privacy. There was a big case here in Seattle about 7 years or so ago that went all the way up to the state's supreme court. A man had been taking pics up women's skirts at Pike Place Market. The victims claimed it was a violation of privacy; the perp claimed it was a public place and it was okay. The ruling of the WA supreme court was interesting: they acknowledged that as state law was written, the perp was right that his pics fell under laws about public space, but they ALSO noted that the law was hideously written if it allowed someone to take pics up women's skirts (for example) and they strongly urged the legislature to fix it.
What *i* said at the time was this: No matter where i am in public, my skirt is always a private space!!! Sheesh! How badly does a law have to be written to make my skirt *public*?!
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Date: 2009-08-21 06:08 pm (UTC)What i find especially interesting about the comments on mystickeeper's fiction/fanfiction post is that the comment thread turned so tense. I did think that antarcticlust was being a little inflammatory, tho' entirely unintentionally. It's interesting to think about why fanfiction can be such a tense, inflammatory subject to discuss -- even among people who occasionally read it and bear it no ill will overall.
Speaking of photos and privacy. There was a big case here in Seattle about 7 years or so ago that went all the way up to the state's supreme court. A man had been taking pics up women's skirts at Pike Place Market. The victims claimed it was a violation of privacy; the perp claimed it was a public place and it was okay. The ruling of the WA supreme court was interesting: they acknowledged that as state law was written, the perp was right that his pics fell under laws about public space, but they ALSO noted that the law was hideously written if it allowed someone to take pics up women's skirts (for example) and they strongly urged the legislature to fix it.
What *i* said at the time was this: No matter where i am in public, my skirt is always a private space!!! Sheesh! How badly does a law have to be written to make my skirt *public*?!