Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running in one of seven tossup House seats in the closely divided legislature, denounced the “illegal invasion of my privacy.”
A Democratic candidate in a crucial race for the Virginia General Assembly denounced reports on Monday that she and her husband had performed live on a sexually explicit streaming site.
Susanna Gibson, a nurse practitioner running in her first election cycle, said in a statement that the leaks about the online activity were “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”
The Washington Post and The Associated Press reported on Monday that tapes of live-streamed sexual activity had been recorded from a pornographic site and archived on another site. The New York Times has not independently verified the content of the videos. The Democratic Party of Virginia did not respond to a request for comment.
Ms. Gibson, 40, who appears on her campaign website in hospital scrubs as well as at home with her husband and two young children, is running for the House of Delegates in one of only a handful of competitive races that will determine control of the General Assembly. Republicans hold a slim majority in the House, and Democrats narrowly control the State Senate, but both chambers are up for grabs in November.
I don’t care that she did it, but if you have live sex for strangers on the Internet then you’ve got to realize that footage can be around forever.
Agreed. Anyone can access it.
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Yeah I’m sure you will sleep just great after jacking off to a woman who specifically didnt want people viewing her deleted stuff.
Putting things on the internet and expecting people to not find/look at them is laughable. I’d still vote for her, and don’t really care.
Also, it’s a joke. I’m not going to watch it. From the discription it’s way to tame to actually get me off anyway. I need like every orifice filled with something. Preferably some kind of love action tentacle porn situation. Bonus points if their in a fur suit.
Missing the point.
She shouldnt expect it to disappear. But those who go looking for what was deleted and which she doesnt want viewed are messed up because it doesnt bother them what she feels.
Ah yes, feelings. The thing you can lean into and be right about anything. You feel right, so you are. Got it.
Asking to have some empathy isn’t the same thing as asking to use feelings to decide in everything you come across.
So if I understand correctly, our candidate live-streamed sexual activity to Chaturbate, and is mad that someone saved and uploaded the video elsewhere.
Our candidate is a naive idiot.
“Invasion of my privacy without consent” You waived any claim to privacy when you hit the Begin Stream button and invited To Whom It May Concern into your bedroom. The video left your computer and arrived on someone else’s computer, and hence permanently entered the state of being “on the internet.” You’re 40 years old, you and I grew up on the same internet in the same time period, you are both young and old enough to know better.
If you don’t want the entire internet to see your gonads, don’t upload your gonads to the internet. Probably don’t even photograph your gonads in the first place, because your phone probably puts your entire camera folder on the internet anyway.
On the topic of a 40 year old woman and candidate for state office sharing an active and apparently adventurous sex life with her husband: Excellent, carry on. Living as long as I have under the thumb of right wing hypocrites who spend their entire lives trying to criminalize anything except being white, male and straight pausing only to take it up the ass in an airport men’s room, I’d honestly prefer a candidate whose take on the matter is “YEAH I like getting dicked all the way down. Wanna watch?”
It’s the blaming someone else for something YOU did that chuffs my spuds here. You chose to broadcast. And you can’t stop the signal, Mal.
A grown adult woman fucked her grown adult husband on camera for adult friends viewing over chaturbate, and this is a scandal I’m supposed to care about?
That’s disgusting! What website are those tapes kept on? So I can avoid ever going to those places!
Mac get outta here
The moral colors of the pro piracy wing of lemmy coming out in force with no understanding of consent or nuance.
Who cares (aside from her clearly)? She is an adult and had sex with her husband (wouldn’t matter if it was not her husband either). Whoopdie doo. What are her views on healthcare and taxing carbon emissions?
I find it funny that they used the term “invasion of privacy”. She and her hubby went onto Chatterbate (I don’t know the exact website name) and took tips from others to perform (according to my morning paper). That’s a public display. And the fact that it didn’t dawn on her that this could be out there is astonishing. I know if I ever put a picture on the internet, it’s there FOREVER, and just because I’m a nobody doesn’t mean someone out there archived it for later.
Edit: I changed leaked to invasion of privacy.
That something was predictable doesn’t excuse the people doing it.
That’s true but still, you can’t exactly claim “invasion of privacy” if you filmed and streamed it live to the Internet yourself.
People should not film it if they don’t want others to see it. That’s the golden rule of porn
You can claim malicious dissemination of a nude, which is a crime in VA: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter8/section18.2-386.2/
where such person knows or has reason to know that he is not licensed or authorized to disseminate or sell such videographic or still image
Would this not be governed by the terms of the stream? If the content was created via a platform, the explicit definition of who has authorization to disseminate it certainly wouldn’t rest solely with the creator.
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Is it a crime if the perpetrator did it from outside of VA?
Unless they did it from South Carolina specifically, yes
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I’m sorry you have failed to understand how the Internet works. I tried to inform you.
No? So then she’s an idiot and that’s clearly not a suitable trait for a politician.
I can’t decide if I wrote that a s joke or not, but I’m leaving it.
Except archiving and disseminating in this way is a violation of Virginia law. https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter8/section18.2-386.2/
Did you find the site and read the terms of service or are you just making shit up to justify this?
She’s an idiot if she thinks live streaming porn of herself online was somehow ever going to be private.
Maybe so but Virginia has a revenge porn law and under that this is technically a crime, as it is intended to intimidate her. No one cared about the videos till she was running for office.
I would be too, that’s lost income.
How come it is an invasion of her privacy if they’re live streaming? She’s just stupid.
Wow, what a body…I think this was either really stupid or really. I feel like this might have been leaked on purpose to get publicity…pity/empathy from the female voters and lust from everyone else. Whatever it was, she’s got my vote!
Joke’s on them - I’m into legislators being comfortable with sexuality.
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You should probably report where you saw them- it’s revenge porn.
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I think that’s the problem, it wasn’t posted by her or her husband.
She and her husband were streaming on Chaturbate. Someone archived the videos.
A month after she announced her candidacy, someone took the archived copies and uploaded them.
A little different than if she or her husband did it themselves or if it were automatic. The timing seems retributive.
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Please explain the difference between dissemination of information and “tipping off” someone about that information
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That is not what the Chaturbate TOS says. She did not agree that the content would be public. Users are not allowed to download material off the site.
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Why would she deny it?
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