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Sextape scandal reveals the ‘double life’ of Iran’s ultra-conservative authorities
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2023
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First thing I thought was that's a huge double-edged sword.
I was glad to see this very close to the top of the article.
Absolutely right. I don't care what you do in private but the moment you start depriving others of life and liberty for those same actions, well...I won't weep when the axe falls on that person
About to become some Leopards Ate My Face content real soon I bet
Except really I think these kind of reveals will slowly lose their relevance since we are getting tools that make it far easier to do "Deepfakes". So it will just become the goto answer. In some ways its liberating, in other ways horrific since it will mean accountability is far harder. Hell we already have the trial run with this whole discussion of "Fake news".
I think consequences accruing to bad people for the wrong reasons are still worth concern, personally.
it's almost confusing this has to be said. the whole point is obviously the criticism that the people in charge of jailing/killing gay people are indulging themselves. I feel you'd need to be pretty dense to not get that, yet I see it mentioned a lot.
You must not live in a country where homosexuality is punishable by death then. I think it's a pretty important point to make when you might have readers who have had that idea reinforced their whole life