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I'm thinking of a similar situation I read about a while back. A guy and a girl broke up and in the aftermath, the guy made a webpage and put a bunch of her nude pics on it. Now, even if she had never found that webpage, we can't say that damage wasn't done because it was -- at minimum to her reputation.
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But that is targeting that woman! The discussion that the people were doing on the philosophy webpage wasn't about the man at all, it was merely about "paranoid" and he and his public advertisement and public webpage were an example. If someone is talking about obese women and points me out, that's not talking about Me, that is talking about obesity. They didn't make any inferences about that particular man's paranoia, how he spent his life, etc. Didn't say, so-and-so is paranoid and therefore. . . Nothing was posted that the guy himself had not posted (unlike your nude pictures which were of someone else and not the guy's to post). I doubt it, but someone could have read the guy's webpage and decided to hire him or whatever he was hoping for! There was no trying to get "revenge" or ruin somebody's reputation; the guys were not after an individual, they were after an "idea"/their philosophical discussion which he illustrated. If your nude guy poster was talking about the greek ideal of beauty and posted a nude picture of a girl he found on the internet, that she had posted and then someone found her website, where she's looking for work as a model, that's not harassment, that's talking about "beauty" and modeling, etc. Discussing "paranoia" which, presumably no one wants to have is not harassment just because someone has/illustrates it. Pointing me out as "obese" is not harassment of me even if you do it to my face. "Lady, you are fat!" is not harassment; because, I am in fact, fat. "Perna, you are fat and I think fat people are gluttons so I'm going to make sure you don't get hired at my company" is harassment.
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