[hurryskurry]

If the videos are published, and the social media profiles public, how can it be illegal to match the two? Supposedly if they show their face they already accept the danger of being recognized, unless the video was published illegally.

That said, why would someone, once someone was identified, just go about harassing them and telling all their friends they do porn? Like who does that?

[jddj]

The internet has enabled some people to deploy complex systems into New York datacenters from a beach in Thailand in a matter of seconds.

Unfortunately, it's also enabled a selection of less socially aware and/or socially responsible people to bypass the natural limits and filters that society had in place, to effectively cause suffering on a fairly broad scale.

Harrassing somebody on the other side of the world from the safe anonymity of your bedroom was once logistically very difficult, as was reaching significant numbers of people with a wildly malicious idea if you couldn't first find people in your immediate (physical) social circle and community to vouch for you/it.

Now, we have entire online communities which have embraced this new normal and provided these folk with the tools and an audience.

[DougN7]

My guess is there are many that did porn when they were younger (and foolish?) but have since moved on with life and might want to forget that episode or their life. So having it resurface 10 years later would be very uncomfortable.