The Atlantic said looking at the pics ‘goes beyond voyeurism – it’s abuse’. An Independent columnist said ‘searching out these images is to be complicit in the crime’. A Guardian writer said there should be prosecutions ‘not only for the hacker of the photos, but for those who view and share them’. Spittle-flecked media commentary didn’t only demand the pursuit of the hacker or hackers who stole the intimate images (which is fine, given he or they clearly broke the law) they also proposed the punishment of those who Googled the pics and gawped at them, which could set a very dangerous precedent indeed.įeminists led the march for tighter clampdowns on the raucous web.
As soon as the hacking was revealed, the call went out for more stringent controls on what people can share and look at online. The celebs are perfectly at liberty to try to have the images removed from the internet (although this is a tough, probably impossible task).īut what the celebs and their lawyers are not at liberty to do is rearrange the entire web around the misfortune they have suffered. The thought that pretty much anyone can now peer into that zone and see what you did with your boyfriend a few months ago must be awful. Very clearly, in these photos and videos the women are behaving in a way they would never do in public, because they are in a completely private zone, being free-wheeling with people they love and trust. Some of the material is eye-wateringly intimate, including not simply done-for-laughs porno poses but also explicit sex acts. It is easy to believe the female celebs who say they have suffered ‘extreme distress’ over the leaking of images from their iCloud accounts.
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