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

[LCBXX]

Use Telegram...

 

[Swa]

Use Telegram...

Too advanced. I use morse code.

 

[Veridion]

Political parties incite violence constantly, I hope we will be hearing less of them soon.

 

[DearHeart]

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

Parliament recently passed the Cybercrimes Bill, which includes a bevvy of new laws around the sending of messages and electronic communications in South Africa.

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[kolakidd]

It’s any digital platform. And it even counts if someone screen grabs your message as evidence. So encryption doesn’t matter.

I honestly don’t know why everyone is raging about this. The laws are just as draconian right now anyway. Social media, and places like this forum where already treated like publishers. There are already a multitude of cases in the public domain that cover stuff like this.

Try and listen to an Emma Sadler talk, she is about the most accessible legal expert on this stuff. It may just save you your job or an expensive legal bill.

 

[LCBXX]

Too advanced. I use morse code.

How do you manage to fluff your hardon long enough to get the details of the nudie tapped through via Morse?

 

[LJR]

"This section includes a reasonable person test, which states that a message will be considered malicious if a reasonable person would perceive the data message as a threat."

that is dodgy ..... in this snowflake age, whoo boy

And so the New World Order is becoming more apparent daily. Something we thought was nonsense before........

 

[Aghori]

Damn. I gotta stop sending gay porn to the MyBB whatsapp group now it seems.

 

[blacklung]

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
So no more Reed Dance coverage on SABC ?

 

[ShaunSA]

How do you manage to fluff your hardon long enough to get the details of the nudie tapped through via Morse?

I've often heard @Papa Smurf's fluffing skills are legendary but this would be in another league

 

[Ockie]

How do you manage to fluff your hardon long enough to get the details of the nudie tapped through via Morse?

Maybe there just aint that much detail to get across.

 

[Slegdehammer67]

I cannot help but wonder if this 'law' will be applied equally across the board? I somehow doubt that it will be unfortunately...