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New NYC Bill Would Criminalize AirDropping Unwanted Dick Pics
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Melanie EhrenkranzYesterday 2:35pm
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The golden age of personal technology has given rise to many a scourge, including the upsetting trend of people AirDropping unsolicited dick pics to strangers. Thankfully, three New York City councilmen introduced a bill on Wednesday that would criminalize digitally whisking your dick photos to anyone who doesn’t want to see them, which is probably everybody.

Councilmen Joseph Borelli, Donovan Richards, and Justin Brannan are co-sponsoring the bill, which would make it illegal “for a person to send an unsolicited sexually explicit video or image to another person with intent to harass, annoy or alarm such other person,” according to the proposed legislation. Those found guilty of so-called cyberflashing would face up to one year in jail or a fine of up to $1,000 if the bill becomes law.

“In the old days, you had to have a long trench coat and good running shoes,” said Councilman Borelli told the New York Times. “Technology has made it significantly easier to be a creep.”

“Keep your pic in your pants,” Richards also told the Times in a deft example of how to promote your legislation.

With your AirDrop set to allow images from “Everyone,” any iPhone user within a close range can drop you a nude—a problem that’s been happening to women for years. In August, the New York Postreported that residents in a Midtown Manhattan apartment building were being “terrorized” by a doorman sending unsolicited dick pics. Because doing so isn’t technically a crime, this case and others inspired Borelli to introduce the bill, a spokesman for the councilman told Gizmodo in an email.

It’s already illegal in New York for someone to harass or threaten someone by telephone, telegraph, mail, or “any other form of written communication.” This bill would catch the law up to basic tech misbehavior by criminalizing the act of sending “intimate images” using “an electronic device,” such as a cellphone “or any other electronic communication device, including devices capable of sending text messages or e-mails.”

You can prevent people from sending you any type of unsolicited AirDrop by making sure your settings are switched to “Contacts Only” or by turning off AirDrop altogether. Unfortunately, if you do have AirDrop turned on for “Everyone” and you get a wretched pic, it can be exceedingly difficult to identify the AirDrop perpetrator. Images can be sent expeditiously and anonymously, and while that person does need to be within around 30 feet of their target, in places like a crowded subway, it’s easy to go undetected.

Still, it’s refreshing to see lawmakers taking these issues seriously and criminalizing a deeply disturbing trend made increasingly easy thanks to tech.
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Clearly, they cannot find an actual problem to fix.
 
Alec Benson Leary dijo:
The court case falls apart when it becomes apparent the solution is "turn it off".
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Eh, I can kind of see where they're coming from; saying people should just turn off Airdrop is like saying that people shouldn't be prosecuted for flashing because people who don't want to see perverts waving their cocks around in public can just walk around with their eyes closed, or that shoving dog shit through someone's letterbox shouldn't be illegal because people could just board up their letterbox.

What surprises me is that giving people unwanted pictures of your genitals isn't already illegal for being sexual harassment/public indecency or whatever, why do they need new laws just because the images are transmitted digitally?
 
How impressive can these pics be if you give them away for free? People should be paying you for dickpics!

On an unrelated note, let me link you to my Patreon.....
 
BlueSpark dijo:
Eh, I can kind of see where they're coming from; saying people should just turn off Airdrop is like saying that people shouldn't be prosecuted for flashing because people who don't want to see perverts waving their cocks around in public can just walk around with their eyes closed, or that shoving dog shit through someone's letterbox shouldn't be illegal because people could just board up their letterbox.

What surprises me is that giving people unwanted pictures of your genitals isn't already illegal for being sexual harassment/public indecency or whatever, why do they need new laws just because the images are transmitted digitally?
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Yeah, it’s a bit of a nuisance. I turned it on temporarily to transfer an image from my phone to my tablet and had some total rando try to send me something. It wasn’t even a dick pic, I don’t think- I didn’t accept it, still annoying.
 
"... with intent to harass, annoy or alarm such other person,”

Where have I heard that before... Oh yeah

"A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another..."

You know the one they convicted Dankula and other people of in the UK with. The Dems are probing for ways to bring in offence and wrong think laws through the back door.
 
Coccxys dijo:
"... with intent to harass, annoy or alarm such other person,”

Where have I heard that before... Oh yeah

"A person is guilty of an offence if, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another..."

You know the one they convicted Dankula and other people of in the UK with. The Dems are probing for ways to bring in offence and wrong think laws through the back door.
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Wrongthink? Showing your gentitals to people who don't want to see them is literally sexual harassment. Whether in real life or a picture.
 
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