[Jamie9912]

Not really, if she understood well what the photograph was being used for at the time, you can't retrospectively wish against it. That's like saying Oh I don't want to be a pornstar anymore, take down all my content thanks.

[nkrisc]

That’s not what she’s saying. It’s a very simple and reasonable request. Choosing to not respect her wish is essentially choosing not to out of spite for her since the effort to respect it is essentially nothing.

[Jamie9912]

It is NOT reasonable by any stretch of the imagination

[nkrisc]

How is “please don’t use that photo of me” unreasonable? It’s a simple request that is trivially easy to respect.

[biorach]

> you can't retrospectively wish against it

She absolutely can. And we, collectively, can choose to respect that wish by using a different test image in future. And why not? It's no real burden to make the change.

[Jamie9912]

It's unreasonable, by principal. Just like how beyonce tried to get her ugly image removed from the internet.

[foldr]

I mean, I don't think Beyoncé should have (or does have) any legal recourse in that kind of situation, but publishing unflattering photos of people just to make fun of how they look is a fairly crappy thing to do. The decent thing to do in that situation would be to refrain from publishing the image unless there were public interest grounds for doing so.

[biorach]

The whole dynamic of this discussion is weird. There's a bunch of people coming up with long winded arguments, not-really-relevant examples and other guff. And there's a bunch of us repeatedly saying "why not just be decent?"

[petee]

I agree, being a decent person is an active choice we should all strive for.

The burden here is that a number of people are so afraid of being "woke" that they'd rather double down being scummy than just find a different jpeg. If it was their daughter I'm sure they'd have a different opinion

[josefx]

> If it was their daughter I'm sure they'd have a different opinion

Are we back in the 60s where a father has to sign off on the daughters job application? We are talking about a woman who willingly signed up for a playboy photoshoot, had been aware of the image being used and circulated for decades with no issues.

[biorach]

> Are we back in the 60s where a father has to sign off on the daughters job application

Strawnan bs. No one advocated anything like that.

> We are talking about a woman who willingly signed up for a playboy photoshoo

Yep. And decades later asked it to not be used anymore.

You can waste as much time with long winded arguments as you want. Or you could just be decent and not use the image. Your call.

[josefx]

> And decades later asked it to not be used anymore.

Then how are her parents even remotely relevant?

> You can waste as much time with long winded arguments as you want

Brought to you by the people who bring this argument up every time the image is used.

[petee]

How could she possibly have known what the internet would become, or how vast? Nobody could have "understood" how their photo could be widely disseminated like today.

At the end of the day its a stolen photo, and immoral to continue to use against the express wishes of the subject, no matter how you want to justify it -- she asked, so just respect it instead of finding ways to justify being a jerk.

[Jamie9912]

My understanding is that this photo was consensual and not stolen

[kchr]

It was scanned and reproduced without the consent of Playboy, if I understand it correctly.