New laws for sending "intimate images" on WhatsApp in South Africa

[Fulcrum29]

This regulation also applies to photoshopped images and deepfakes, as well as pictures or videos which do not show the subject’s face but in which their identity is described.

The same is true of threats to people and property sent over WhatsApp, social media, email, or any other electronic communication.

For example, Malema publishes some threat made to him and or his members on social media. The threat contains a mobile number. The audience then goes and type the number into TrueCaller, CallApp or which ever caller ID app and then publishes said person or persons in public view. Caller IDs aren't accurate!!!

I will tell you now, there will be zero accountability, and things like this will continue to happen.

Let's be honest, as certain demographic's personal property is threatened daily on social media, but of course, that 'threat' is in the public interest.

 

[Neuk_]

So it's back to sending nudes via the post office then...

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

"Reasonable" in legal terms is different from the colloquial term that you're familiar with.

Reasonable Person

Definition of Reasonable Person in the Legal Dictionary by The Free Dictionary

legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com

Not much difference these days, what with the amount of sketchy judges presiding

 

[MavChat]

Uhm... If ISP's have to log everything that is being sent on their network it would be an invasion of privacy of the user, never mind the impossibility to store these logs based on the amount of traffic sent by their clients. Imagine having a million connections with an average of 3 people per household (just an example) using the internet to send mail, Instant messages, social media etc etc etc all day. I just do not see that this could be feasible.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/378732-south-africas-piracy-crackdown-concerns.html explain the limitations of ISPs

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Just wait until memes are dragged to court, there are many themes with sexual themes and I doubt a judge will simply understand the background of the meme.

I can already see this legislation going back and forth in court. There will be people digging up old schit, and try to cycle it back into the public domain for malicious purposes, it is just the way some humans work.

1984: Until a picture of the parliament is intimate.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

@Papa Smurf please delete my pics

I will never ever delete your dick pics, and neither @HunterNW @The_Mowgs and @cavedog
They're in the cloud forever

 

[spiff]

anyone have a courier pigeon for sale?

 

[Herr der Verboten]

I will never ever delete your dick pics, and neither @HunterNW @The_Mowgs and @cavedog
They're in the cloud forever

What to do with the group sex pics

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

What to do with the group sex pics

i roll a dice and fap to that person in the photo
Follow me for more handy tips

 

[supersunbird]

who decides whats intimate?

For some a revealing female face is; while others think a man hopping around on all fours with fizzlers in his arse is.

An “intimate image” is defined as the depiction of a person (real or simulated) in which they are nude, their genital organs or anal region are exposed, or if they are a female person, transgender person or intersex person, their breasts are displayed.

Source: the MyBB article

 

[supersunbird]

So it's back to sending nudes via the post office then...

Changes of receipt by intended recipient are a gamble.

 

[borro]

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Source: the MyBB article

MyIntimate StaffWriter

 

[itareanlnotani]

anyone have a courier pigeon for sale?

Still faster than Telkom ADSL!

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Still faster than Telkom ADSL and Rain!

ftfy

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

These new laws were first drafted in 2017,

Plenty laws in SA .......... getting them enforced, not easy, getting a conviction - even more difficult.

Ask JZ or Juliass.

 

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

So you're fine to rape and murder just as long as you dont send a dick-pic without permission ... cause for that sh|t they have plenty of time and manpower ... GTFO

 

[supersunbird]

MyIntimate StaffWriter

As long as they don't send around pictures of said staff they they write about, all good

 

[SpiderGear]

Het Chris al gery?

I came here for this.

 

[Swa]

Going to be problematic. What's intimate to one person isn't to another. The covered reference is another bone of contention. Reasonable person tests have never fared well in a court of law. A better test has been whether a person in their state of mind has acted reasonably.

Then what constitutes consent? Is it ok to distribute a picture of someone streaking through a mall? What about a beach? Can someone revoke consent again after giving it?