I do not get how people get blackmailed with their own nudes.
Like, who gives a shit? I see myself naked all the time. And now you have as well, blackmailer, so if anything I should be getting money from you.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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It’s India not Denmark you dingus. It doesn’t matter if you don’t care, other people care they will ostracize you or worse see it as an excuse to rape you. Like many women get raped in India for simply breaking social norms like traveling without a male chaperone.
DINGUS!
Then maybe we should be addressing those behaviors?
Yes.
Your house is burning. You should be replacing the building materials with something much less flammable, but in the meantime, maybe you might be wise to pour some water on the fire.
I can ruin your reputation or be used in conjuction with other social engineering techniques to eicit fear. It is also very intimate and personal, and shows a private side of your person that may not be intended for others. Examples of threats could be sending them to in-laws, emoyeers, your whole office, the school were your kids attend. Even without any really intention of distributing it, the threat is enough.
Sounds like we just need a Share Your Nudes Week to help destigmatize a very ordinary part of modern life.
While i agree in the idea of destigmatizing sex, consent (or lack there of) is a key part in why this is so traumatic, without even considering the negative and wrongfully directed anger often targeted at the victim by their community.
yeah having your bodily autonomy removed for any reason is a traumatic experience.
I agree. I call myself a closet naturist because I'm all for the human body just being a human body and not ridiculously hyper-sexualised. But I'm also a sexual abuse survivor and that same hyper-sexualisation makes me very wary and anxious around people who are not also naturists.
I've been assaulted way too many times WITH clothes on to trust the general population who can't comprehend that a naked body =/= sex and an open invitation.
Remembering this from Community.
"It's Vietnam!" And he laughed. They had no idea what they were in for.
Now imagine said nudes being sent to your mum, your employer, your kids, etc, and the knock-on effect it might have on your life.
That is why they pay.
I have this crazy strategy that has been working so far: I don't take any nudes.
Did you read the article at all? They're faked, but that's still enough to cause harm.
If they're fake, then I won't care. But of course, like it was said elsewhere, I live in a place where nude pictures are, at most, an embarrassment and not a threat to my life or physical wellbeing.
You won't care, but your employer might, to the point where they fire you. Your partner might, to the point where they leave you. Your overbearing family members might, to the point where they put out an 'honour killing' hit on you, or do the deed themselves.
He/she already said it. It is not a problem in the country/society he lives in. "Just an embarrassment", they said.
Like I just pointed out, 'something embarrassing' can have much dire consequences when put in the wrong hands.
It only has to go to someone with no chill and they will make the problems. The place they live in might be chill, but that doesn't mean there will be zero consequences.
I live in a place where nude pictures are, at most, an embarrassment
What part of above sentence don't you understand? If their society (neighbours, employers, friends and family etc.) doesn't care about nudity, what kind of dire consequences can you have in the wrong hands? If they were photoshopped into doing something illegal, it's not something that can be avoided at all. So you "caring" doesn't work either.
It only has to go to someone with no chill and they will make the problems.
What part of the above sentence don't you understand?
If their society (neighbours, employers, friends and family etc.) doesn’t care about nudity, what kind of dire consequences can you have in the wrong hands?
The problem there is that you are assuming that literally everyone in their lives is chill with this kind of thing. Maybe that is true if you spend your entire life in one particular bubble that happens to accept nudity, but that is true of basically no one. There is always at least one prude that would try to raise hell in the name of Christianity or some other such religion or other shit.
Add 'dont use your computer or phone while naked' to the list. Spyware riddled machines with webcams can also be how these nudes come about.
Alternatively, if somebody threatens you with nudes, release your own! Nobody's going to blackmail you, if you're a nudist! Jeff bezos energy
My mum
Well she'd know how my transition is going.
My employer
Doesn't seem professional for my employer to be looking at such things. Shame on them.
My kids
I don't have kids but if they were underage then that's a mail-ordered crate of ACME-brand Yikes bad ideas.
(I want to be clear that, even if I am a Dingus, I'm only one who is shitposting.)
And such quality shitposting too!
Those weren't nudes of herself, just of her photoshopped on someone else's body.
Do you think a fake bank app would ask for nudes for verification purposes?
Indian society is nuts:
She has been ostracised by neighbours in the community she has lived in for 40 years.
"As of today, I have no friends. It's just me I guess," she says with a sad chuckle.
Some of her family still don't speak to her. And she constantly wonders whether the men she works with are picturing her naked.
A picture of your head photoshopped on some chick's body? Why is that embarrassing for anyone over the age of 13? I would just assume they were hacked. It's embarrassing for whoever sent it.
Sadly common worldview among societies with "culture and history". Ironically this culture of monogamy and being so sexually prude is a result of Western colonisation. These are Christian ideals, not necessarily the ideals of Buddhism or Hinduism (Remember Temples of Kama Sutra, anyone?). While the colonies have stuck with 1800s, the colonisers have moved on.
That means the issue is the culture, not photoshop.
I cant imagine the pain and suffering this is causing people.
I also dont understand why so many people trust their smartphone or 3rd party cloud services to keep their nudes secure.
The photo was doctored by the collection agency.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A blackmail scam is using instant loan apps to entrap and humiliate people across India and other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Astha knew her mother had been getting some weird calls and that she owed somebody money, but she had no idea that Bhoomi was reeling from months of harassment and psychological torture.
Most were in their 20s and 30s - a fireman, an award-winning musician, a young mum and dad leaving behind their three- and five-year-old daughters, a grandfather and grandson who got involved in loan apps together.
Rohan gained Chaurasia's trust, and together with a journalist posing as an investor, arranged a meeting at which they asked him to explain exactly how the scam works.
When asked for comment, Li Xiang told the BBC that he and his companies comply with all local laws and regulations, have never run predatory loan apps, have ceased collaboration with Jiyaliang, the loan recovery company run by Liang Tian Tian and Parshuram Takve, and do not collect or use customers' contact information.
Additional reporting by Ronny Sen, Shwetika Prashar, Syed Hasan, Ankur Jain and the BBC Eye team.
The original article contains 2,450 words, the summary contains 189 words. Saved 92%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
This is an awful summary. Try again, bot!
“Saved 92%” Yeah, and half the story too.
....This just raises questions about what the article about, it is not a summary.