It’s interesting to me that she’s suggesting people are breaking the revenge porn law for content she freely uploaded online as a camgirl, doesn’t really seem like it fits.

48 points

Not sure why this is an issue. Women have sex. Yes, it’s hot, get over it.

Friggin prudes, I swear.

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I think that’s the problem, she didn’t upload anything.

She and her husband were streaming on Chaturbate. Someone archived the videos.

A month after she announced her candidacy, someone took the archived copies and uploaded them.

A little different than if she or her husband did it themselves.

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She accepted money to make a public exhibition.

The motives of the person who re-uploaded, based on the time-frame, make him an asshole.

Sex work, especially of the digital kind, should not be stigmatized to begin with.

Her and her husband are hot. They needed money. They showed some folks a good time for tips. And?

I’m sure her rival has done worse for a dollar.

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I doubt any lawyer worth their bar license would be unable to convince a jury of average Internet users that she disseminated those videos on the Internet herself. Her alleged expectation that they wouldn’t be stored or otherwise available in the future is laughable.

Now she (or more likely the website she used) might have a cause of action against the person if they tried to sell them or otherwise profit from them, but only from an intellectual property point of view. Definitely no sex crimes happened here.

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What are you talking about?

Assuming she is telling the truth, someone (not her) recorded her Chaturbate session, and then uploaded it to another site or sites without her permission

That is 100% a crime under revenge porn laws

Simply recording the stream may have been a crime

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Doing a one time streaming event is totally different than recording that event and re-uploading it in a more permanent fashion.

Especially since the upload only happened a month after she announced her candidacy.

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Good for her… Who cares.

People who did the upload are disgusting PoS tho. You known their intent was with this. I hope it backfires.

She more fit for the job than any clown who hopes to win BC this chick bang her husband on camera… The horror, clutch them pearls harder!

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Republicans aren’t upset that it was a lewd sex act. Silly you, they’re upset is was consensual.

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Agreed. I keep seeing news outlets trying to turn this into a story, but I just don’t give a flying fuck what two consenting adults do on their own time. All this reporting has done is making me aware that an actual human is running for a political position, so probably not the shock and awe they were going for.

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Her and her husband were consenting and making money. I fail to see how this relates to her campaign. Unlike others, who fund sex work with campaign money

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They weren’t even making money at it.

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Well, they were consenting lol

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Better optics if she just owns it.

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Afaik, she hasn’t denied it, she just repeats that focusing on this is a dirty disgusting tactic aimed at her family. And she’s not wrong about that. Unfortunately, dirty tactics are so often used by people without scruples because they’re often effective.

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