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   Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 21:27:48 JST Flick ??

   Oh ffs.

   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14461483/Possessing-photos-Muslim-woman-without-hijab-criminal-offence-MPs-say.html

   The Commons' women and equalities committee said pictures of a Muslim woman without her headscarf – taken without her consent – should be considered 'non-consensual intimate images'.

   Such photographs should be treated the same as child sex abuse images, possession of which can carry long prison sentences, the MPs said.

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     The Dread Slender Gnome (gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 21:27:48 JST The Dread Slender Gnome

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     @Flick

     An intimate image would have to show someone without their 'particular attire of religious or cultural significance' and be taken 'in circumstances in which an ordinary reasonable person would reasonably expect to be afforded privacy'.

     So if I'm in a female-only space where there are also muslim women, and I take a photo of my friends and some muslim woman happens to be in the background without her modesty cage, I would according to this definition be guilty of creating AND possessing " non-consensual intimate images" equal to CP.

     That's not chilling at all, nope.

     'The Government should be cautious about creating yet more criminal offences.' (David Spencer, of the think-tank Policy Exchange)

     When I was reading the article, I was reminded of a sign Mark Thomas saw in one of his mass lone demonstrations, reading "for goodness sakes stop making up crimes".
     I see I wasn't the only one thinking along those lines.

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