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Love this bit
But she did consent when she allowed people to use her face. I’m not saying what those people are doing with it are morally right but she consented when she clicked the box allowing cameos.
As a journalist she did it to see what would happen. And then wrote an article about what happened. This is definitely worth talking about even if she did click the box, the box isn't really the point here.
The question is what did she consent to (as in, what was the thing she did expect that this checkbox created)?
"Cameo" doesn't exactly evoke "allow people to create fetish porn with my face".
If the button was labelled with that or some other more clear text, I don't think there would have been a need for this article.
And that's pretty much the point of this article: "Beware of corporate double-speek, this harmless word here means 'allow fetish porn with your face'", and that kind of warning article is not only important but pretty much essential in today's world, where "autopilot" doesn't mean that the car is fully self-driving, and where even "full self-driving" doesn't mean "fully self-driving".
And the only indication one has that words don't mean what they mean is a multiple hundred page long terms of services full of legal jargon that most people can't understand but that legally protect the corporation.
As Marc-Uwe Kling said: "Die Welt ist voll von Arschlöchern. Rechtlich abgesicherten Arschlöchern."
"The world is full of assholes. Legally protected assholes."