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October 07, 2014

Jennifer Lawrence Comments on Stolen Photos

LOS ANGELES—For the first time since hackers made off with her private photos, which did not remain private for long, actress Jennifer Lawrence is speaking out on the incident, in a 3,000 word article in the November issue of Vanity Fair that covers more than just the infamous hack. But it is her searing comments on the incident that are garnering all the headlines today. Most notable in the snippets that have been released by Vanity Fair in advance of the article’s digital publication tomorrow is the anger she directs at the sites that ran unauthorized photos of her and others, and also the voyeurs who looked at them. “The law needs to be changed, and we need to change,” she told VF contributing editor Sam Kashner. “That’s why these web sites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody’s mind is to make a profit from it. It’s so beyond me. I just can’t imagine being that detached from humanity. I can’t imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside… anybody who looked at those pictures; you’re perpetuating a sexual offense. You should cower with shame.” Lawrence says she thought about commenting sooner, but “every single thing that I tried to write made me cry or get angry. I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for. I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you.” She adds, “Just because I’m a public figure, just because I’m an actress, does not mean that I asked for this. It does not mean that it comes with the territory. It’s my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can’t believe that we even live in that kind of world.”  As far as the hack itself is concerned, Lawrence is unequivocal about what sort of crime she thinks was committed. “It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime. It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting.” Lawrence, of course, is a massive brand unto herself, with the attendant publicity machine that comes with it. When she talks, fans listen. But, as is being reported over the past day or so, the efforts by “the creeps” to gain by illicit means nude photos of less-famous females continues unabated online , as if all the media attention that came with The Fappening has unleashed an army of hacker demons. As reported by the Washington Post, “In today’s soul-rending installment of Internet depravity, the fine people of AnonIB — the predatory image board that specializes in hacked, stolen and otherwise misappropriated nudes — have apparently found a new way to exploit and terrorize the women of the Internet. This time, they’re taking to the anonymous messaging app Whisper. And they’re successfully tricking women, and underage girls, into giving up their naked pictures.” It’s actually old news, admits writer Caitlin Dewey later in the piece. “It’s gross,” she writes, “and it’s disturbing, but it’s also the oldest trick in the social-media-solicitation book. Practitioners euphemistically call the art ‘social engineering,’ but that oversells it: It’s basically lying, scheming and inventing until the target gives up information he or she really shouldn’t.” She also quotes a Whisper spokesperson, who explains, “From day one, our number one priority has been maintaining the safety of the Whisper community. As part of our commitment to safety, our app has always been 17-plus. We have a moderation team of more than 130 people who enforce our guidelines, in addition to numerous technical safeguards. We prohibit solicitation of any kind and will delete the Whispers and block users who violate our guidelines.” If, that is, they find out. Whisper also acknowledges, according to Dewey, that “Moderation is good, algorithms are good — but no tool can truly outwit one person determined to trick another.”

 
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