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Facebook will change a recently introduced advertising tracking program after 50,000 users signed an online petition and some complained that their holiday shopping purchases were made public without their permission. In an announcement made last week, the popular social networking site said it will now ask for explicit consent before publicizing recent online purchases through the “News Feed,” a function that allows Facebook friends to follow each other’s activities. Before Facebook amended the tracking function, users found their gift ideas spoiled because they had not known to disable the feature...
...think in every single civil rights movement, it is an issue when the courts jump in and rule on it without the consent of the legislature,” Kwong said...
...better known as Linda Lovelace), of “Deep Throat” fame. Here is a woman who was beaten, raped, and prostituted by her husband, who actually held a gun to her head to ensure she performed the acts seen in that movie. This is not what consent looks like. Or take a more familiar example – a young girl who is sexually assaulted by her (take your pick: father, uncle, brother, stepfather, etc) runs away from home to avoid further abuse and turns to prostitution to feed herself (and perhaps her children), because...
...points she raised to demonstrate the societal harm caused by pornography. It is also a distortion to connect her anti-pornography position to the belief that “women are always coerced into sex.” The argument is not that women cannot be trusted to give consent, but rather that mere consent does not necessarily make an arrangement just, especially when assent is driven by economic desperation. I imagine that The Crimson writers would see injustice in the conditions of third world sweatshops, where laborers “voluntarily” work 16 hour days in hazardous...
...Wilson was seventeen, a football star and honor student when he was arrested in 2003. At the time of his trial, sexual intercourse between minors less than four years apart was a misdemeanor, even if one of them was younger than 16, Georgia's age of consent. But oral sex - legally considered sodomy in Georgia - carried no so-called Romeo and Juliet provision, and remained a felony in all cases if either party was under...