The charges, announced Thursday by the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office, came as Lancaster Country Day School has been facing mounting pressure over its response to the deepfakes.
The problem I see here is that some underage boys got caught doing things boys will do with the tech available to them and now have something on their record possibly for life. Meanwhile a few people in the admin quit rather than get penalized for their inaction to the discovery, and the system didn’t get improved to address something that will happen again, because young boys are ignorant of laws and will do things with technology that wasn’t possible at that level even a few years ago.
I mean if we’re okay with kids who get found using easily available tech to fantasize about things being marked as sexual predators and shrugging with “nothing we could have done”, then that’s how this will continue. I do wonder how the law and school would typically deal with intercepting a hand drawn nude that resembled a classmate when it got passed around. Same thing?
I empathize with the victim of the pictures too, which is why I wish there was a better answer than a criminal mark on the boys and a forced quitting of those who could have done better to confront it. Because I guarantee this is the case where the kids got caught, not the only ones that are actively doing it. And it will keep happening if parents and teachers aren’t willing to talk about sexual topics to the kids. This is just another level of porn that is more interactive and customizable.
Ok but if there no consequences for this it sends the message to every kid in the Future that this is fine to do. It sucks to be the example, but it is what it is
I didn’t say not to have consequences, I just question which ones were used and whether they even address the problem. Hell, part of the problem in this situation was there were NO consequences initially because the adults didn’t want to touch the subject of sex. They should have approached it from a therapeutic pov instead of a first ignore and then punish anyone involved.
I seriously doubt any kid doing anything like this is going to run across this news and think, crap, I better find another outlet for my urges. And as I said before, the tech is out there online and using conventional equipment in private, so kids are absolutely trying things out. This is the 21st century version of pretending Johnny doesn’t have a Playboy hidden under his mattress because you don’t want to talk to him about anything awkward.
The problem I see here is that some underage boys got caught doing things boys will do with the tech available to them and now have something on their record possibly for life. Meanwhile a few people in the admin quit rather than get penalized for their inaction to the discovery, and the system didn’t get improved to address something that will happen again, because young boys are ignorant of laws and will do things with technology that wasn’t possible at that level even a few years ago.
I mean if we’re okay with kids who get found using easily available tech to fantasize about things being marked as sexual predators and shrugging with “nothing we could have done”, then that’s how this will continue. I do wonder how the law and school would typically deal with intercepting a hand drawn nude that resembled a classmate when it got passed around. Same thing?
I empathize with the victim of the pictures too, which is why I wish there was a better answer than a criminal mark on the boys and a forced quitting of those who could have done better to confront it. Because I guarantee this is the case where the kids got caught, not the only ones that are actively doing it. And it will keep happening if parents and teachers aren’t willing to talk about sexual topics to the kids. This is just another level of porn that is more interactive and customizable.
Ok but if there no consequences for this it sends the message to every kid in the Future that this is fine to do. It sucks to be the example, but it is what it is
I didn’t say not to have consequences, I just question which ones were used and whether they even address the problem. Hell, part of the problem in this situation was there were NO consequences initially because the adults didn’t want to touch the subject of sex. They should have approached it from a therapeutic pov instead of a first ignore and then punish anyone involved.
I seriously doubt any kid doing anything like this is going to run across this news and think, crap, I better find another outlet for my urges. And as I said before, the tech is out there online and using conventional equipment in private, so kids are absolutely trying things out. This is the 21st century version of pretending Johnny doesn’t have a Playboy hidden under his mattress because you don’t want to talk to him about anything awkward.