We Don’t Need New Laws for Faked Videos, We Already Have Them
Video editing technology hit a milestone this month. The new tech is being used to make porn. With easy-to-use software, pretty much anyone can seamlessly take the face of one real person (like a celebrity) and splice it onto the body of another (like a porn star), creating videos that lack the consent of multiple parties.
People have already picked up the technology, creating and uploading dozens of videos on the Internet that purport to involve famous Hollywood actresses in pornography films that they had no part in whatsoever.
The knee-jerk reaction many people have towards any new technology that could be used for awful purposes is to try and criminalize or regulate the technology itself. But such a move would threaten the beneficial uses as well, and raise unnecessary constitutional problems.
Notice that ‘economic impact,’ not safety, is neighbors’ principal concern. They even blamed registrants for a lack of “historic preservation.”
This is how PUBLIC online registries create political pressure for residency restrictions, exclusion zones, and banishment laws.
Take the registry offline, and watch property values recover. If they don’t, then you don’t have registrants (or “predatory people,” as one mom put it) to blame
Amen and Amen!!
Why do we always have a law on top of another law to “ accomplish a problem/solution”; which only creates more harm and problems? Why not use common sense, evidence, and facts to improve society? To many ambulance knee jerk chasers in politics in this country.