this doesn't fall under the VA revenge porn statute. It's not meant to. This isn't revenge porn. Yall think it's dirty politics but it's also newsworthy that a politician is doing porn. Voters have a right to know.

The wilder part, the part that surprised me, is that this doesn't even seem to be a violation of the Terms of Use of the website. See this line right here:

"When you broadcast or upload Community Member Content to the Platform, you hereby grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, and perform the Community Member Content in connection with delivering the Platform and for marketing and advertising the availability of the Platform in any media format we choose. You also expressly provide that each Community Member shall have a license to use the Community Member Content under the terms of Section III(c) of these Terms."

The T&Cs give the website a broad license to use submitted content and then seems to gives those broad rights to other users. I think this is just bad drafting (there is not Section III(c) and they don't mean for it to read this way, but it does read like there is, arguably, a broad right by other users to use the content on the site.

Then hereis also this:

"Public Information/Caution in Sharing Information. As noted in our Privacy Policy, all information and/or content you choose to post and/or share through your profile on the Platform, through chat (including private chat or "direct message"), and all content you stream or otherwise share through the Platform is considered public information. You agree to limit the information you share through the Platform keeping in mind we cannot control the use of such information by those with whom you share your information."


That's killer if someone is trying to argue that the content is private.


I could be wrong or missing something, I think I need to spend ALOT more time on the website to be certain I caught it all.




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