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by pessimizer 4347 days ago
>No, we don't.

You're right. I think the standard way of dealing of them here is to hire a lawyer to file a copyright on the images or video and DMCA the host, which only works if the person depicted is legally the owner of the material (like sexting selfies.) Otherwise, people file a case against the owner of the image for harassment or hacking (or something in that vein) and get a judge to issue a court order to take it down as part of a possible crime.

It's a pretty awful and expensive state of affairs (at least in the US.) The larger question is what this "right to be forgotten" attempts to answer in a more general sense, which is whether you should be able to force people to take these things down at all. I tend to say no. I don't think sexuality should differentiate your right to distribute content from any other reason, so, sadly, I think the current state of US law is mostly a good one.

I think that if you don't have a right to be forgotten, you also shouldn't have a right for your sex tape to be forgotten.