<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"> It is a little more complex than that though. Once someone has been murdered<br>
there is little more you can do to help or hurt them. When someone has been<br>
sexually abused is has a very long term effect, and just knowing that the<br>
act was recorded and the recording is in circulation is itself -further-<br>
psychological abuse.<br>
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</div>I don't buy this argument, because it can apply to plenty of other<br>
situations. Should the US torture videos be suppressed for the sake<br>
of the feelings of the victims? Should the Zapruder film have been<br>
suppressed to spare the feelings of Kennedy's children?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I would really only apply this argument to victims of sexual abuse, and only to the feelings of the person directly featured in the video. A lot of it comes down to the reason for circulating the videos too. People circulating "CP" and rape videos usually aren't doing it to draw public attention to the issue of child abuse or rape.<br>
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