Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running in one of seven tossup House seats in the closely divided legislature, denounced the “illegal invasion of my privacy.”

A Democratic candidate in a crucial race for the Virginia General Assembly denounced reports on Monday that she and her husband had performed live on a sexually explicit streaming site.

Susanna Gibson, a nurse practitioner running in her first election cycle, said in a statement that the leaks about the online activity were “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”

The Washington Post and The Associated Press reported on Monday that tapes of live-streamed sexual activity had been recorded from a pornographic site and archived on another site. The New York Times has not independently verified the content of the videos. The Democratic Party of Virginia did not respond to a request for comment.

Ms. Gibson, 40, who appears on her campaign website in hospital scrubs as well as at home with her husband and two young children, is running for the House of Delegates in one of only a handful of competitive races that will determine control of the General Assembly. Republicans hold a slim majority in the House, and Democrats narrowly control the State Senate, but both chambers are up for grabs in November.

  • @[email protected]
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    I don’t care that she did it, but if you have live sex for strangers on the Internet then you’ve got to realize that footage can be around forever.

  • @[email protected]
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    If there’s anything voters hate more than atheists, it’s women that show any sort of sexuality. Juxtapose that with several very high elections and appointments of men who have sexually assaulted women if you’d like to feel a little disgusted this morning.

    • @Astroturfed
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      I’d like to vote for a sex worker for president. They’d be way less likely to assault anyone or be a pedophile than most of the people we elect now.

    • Poplar?
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      Yeah I’m sure you will sleep just great after jacking off to a woman who specifically didnt want people viewing her deleted stuff.

      • @Astroturfed
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        Putting things on the internet and expecting people to not find/look at them is laughable. I’d still vote for her, and don’t really care.

        Also, it’s a joke. I’m not going to watch it. From the discription it’s way to tame to actually get me off anyway. I need like every orifice filled with something. Preferably some kind of love action tentacle porn situation. Bonus points if their in a fur suit.

        • Poplar?
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          Missing the point.

          She shouldnt expect it to disappear. But those who go looking for what was deleted and which she doesnt want viewed are messed up because it doesnt bother them what she feels.

          • @Astroturfed
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            Ah yes, feelings. The thing you can lean into and be right about anything. You feel right, so you are. Got it.

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              Asking to have some empathy isn’t the same thing as asking to use feelings to decide in everything you come across.

  • Captain Aggravated
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    So if I understand correctly, our candidate live-streamed sexual activity to Chaturbate, and is mad that someone saved and uploaded the video elsewhere.

    Our candidate is a naive idiot.

    “Invasion of my privacy without consent” You waived any claim to privacy when you hit the Begin Stream button and invited To Whom It May Concern into your bedroom. The video left your computer and arrived on someone else’s computer, and hence permanently entered the state of being “on the internet.” You’re 40 years old, you and I grew up on the same internet in the same time period, you are both young and old enough to know better.

    If you don’t want the entire internet to see your gonads, don’t upload your gonads to the internet. Probably don’t even photograph your gonads in the first place, because your phone probably puts your entire camera folder on the internet anyway.

    On the topic of a 40 year old woman and candidate for state office sharing an active and apparently adventurous sex life with her husband: Excellent, carry on. Living as long as I have under the thumb of right wing hypocrites who spend their entire lives trying to criminalize anything except being white, male and straight pausing only to take it up the ass in an airport men’s room, I’d honestly prefer a candidate whose take on the matter is “YEAH I like getting dicked all the way down. Wanna watch?”

    It’s the blaming someone else for something YOU did that chuffs my spuds here. You chose to broadcast. And you can’t stop the signal, Mal.

  • @[email protected]
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    That’s disgusting! What website are those tapes kept on? So I can avoid ever going to those places!

  • @Copernican
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    The moral colors of the pro piracy wing of lemmy coming out in force with no understanding of consent or nuance.

  • SeaJ
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    Who cares (aside from her clearly)? She is an adult and had sex with her husband (wouldn’t matter if it was not her husband either). Whoopdie doo. What are her views on healthcare and taxing carbon emissions?

  • @Widowmaker_Best_Girl
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    She’s an idiot if she thinks live streaming porn of herself online was somehow ever going to be private.

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      Maybe so but Virginia has a revenge porn law and under that this is technically a crime, as it is intended to intimidate her. No one cared about the videos till she was running for office.

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    I find it funny that they used the term “invasion of privacy”. She and her hubby went onto Chatterbate (I don’t know the exact website name) and took tips from others to perform (according to my morning paper). That’s a public display. And the fact that it didn’t dawn on her that this could be out there is astonishing. I know if I ever put a picture on the internet, it’s there FOREVER, and just because I’m a nobody doesn’t mean someone out there archived it for later.

    Edit: I changed leaked to invasion of privacy.

    • @AbouBenAdhem
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      That something was predictable doesn’t excuse the people doing it.

      • @RaoulDook
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        That’s true but still, you can’t exactly claim “invasion of privacy” if you filmed and streamed it live to the Internet yourself.

        People should not film it if they don’t want others to see it. That’s the golden rule of porn

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            where such person knows or has reason to know that he is not licensed or authorized to disseminate or sell such videographic or still image

            Would this not be governed by the terms of the stream? If the content was created via a platform, the explicit definition of who has authorization to disseminate it certainly wouldn’t rest solely with the creator.

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                Public information is not the same as public domain. They still hold the copyright on the streams, making reuploads illegal.

                Also, aside from legality, it’s simply morally wrong. They consented to be watched once live (or, if they enabled recordings, until they delete the VOD), not for it to be shared around on third party sites forever - regardless what Chaturbate put in their TOS to cover their asses.

            • @utopianfiat
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              Unless they did it from South Carolina specifically, yes

                • @utopianfiat
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                  Because SC is the only state without a revenge porn law.

          • squiblet
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            chaturbate is free and public unless it’s specifically a paid private show.

          • @RaoulDook
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            I’m sorry you have failed to understand how the Internet works. I tried to inform you.

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        No? So then she’s an idiot and that’s clearly not a suitable trait for a politician.

        I can’t decide if I wrote that a s joke or not, but I’m leaving it.

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      Can we just agree that if someone does something for fun or profit that isn’t illegal or unethical they can just be free to go about their business? I’d share plenty of explicit content of my wife and I were it not for bullshit like this. (Also these days we’re old and plain enough that no one would give a fuck, but anyway word would eventually get back to family and coworkers because too many people hate folks just enjoying themselves and sharing.)

      Doxxing someone over sex is soliciting harm to them - inciting others to “punish” them for legal, consensual behavior. There is nothing wrong with what they did, but there is something wrong with trying to use it to hurt them, despite the fact that in a reasonable world no one would care beyond idle curiosity.

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        My comment was about how she feels this is an invasion of privacy not about the legality of the situation. She posted these on the internet with her own free will for money. She didn’t have a problem posing for them.when it benefited her. Now, though, it’s a problem.

        Personally, I have no problem with her wanting to explore her sensuality. Good for her. I stop feeling sorry for her when she then declares it an invasion of privacy.

        • @CoffeeJunkie
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          Did she do it for money? 🤔 I was under the impression that Chaturbate was a site for exhibitionists that wanted to sex chat, show themselves, have sex just for jollies.

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            According to the article from the nytimes, she raised money by asking for tokens in exchange for their suggestions to perform sex acts.

            Edit: or was it wapo? I read it somewhere that she was accepting money in exchange for sex acts.

            • Fushuan [he/him]
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              Yeah chaturbate is basically twitch for porn. People give petitions with donations.

      • girlfreddy
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        Are you asking to be outed as a prude?

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          In my experience, the kinkiest people are the ones that are the most into consent. Like Commander Riker.. I don’t get why valuing consent and being prude are opposite ends of the spectrum for you. Could you explain?

          • @Wogi
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            Then there was that one time a nurse refused to help Riker escape unless he slept with her. So he did. And was captured anyway

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        To quote Raouldook

        "That’s true but still, you can’t exactly claim “invasion of privacy” if you filmed and streamed it live to the Internet yourself.

        People should not film it if they don’t want others to see it. That’s the golden rule of porn"

        • @[email protected]
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          You’re not wrong. It’s not about victim blaming, but if you don’t look both ways when you cross the road, knowing full well that the road is full of cars, and then you get hit by a car, you should have known better. This isn’t a “don’t wear revealing clothing and walk down an alley” argument, this is a common sense argument. You sincerely didn’t know that people could record video from their monitor? Sureeee.

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            I’d still prefer people to not get hit by cars regardless if you think they deserve it or not. I think rooting for the cars in that scenario is kinda gross.

          • @[email protected]
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            Sigh.

            Try to stay on the topic at hand. Now we have to debate the accuracy of your analogy rather than the subject at hand.

            Hint: It’s not a 1:1 ratio.

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        No no no, you misunderstood… I’m just saying if you wear something revealing like that- Wait, no! I mean…

        HELP! I’M BEING CANCEL CULTURED BY XERO! :'( I LIKE BEER! LOCK HER UP! BUTTERY MALES! HUNTER’S HUNG HOG!!!

        • Cethin
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          If you put your movie online, is it public domain? Just because it’s pornographic doesn’t make it public domain.

          • @[email protected]
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            You’re right, porn doesn’t automatically become public domain. That would be strange. It’s public domain because they willingly agreed to the site’s terms of service that say so.

            • Cethin
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              IIRC it said that it’s public not public domain. If you’re out in public (including your front yard) you have no expectation of privacy. That doesn’t mean anyone can use a thing that’s in public to make money off of. Public does not mean public domain. Public means anyone could possibly see it. Public domain means the public owns it.

        • @Copernican
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          Willing upload to the public domain? How is this public domain?

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            It’s public domain through the terms of service they agreed to when they used the site. These terms have been quoted elsewhere in this post.

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      Did you find the site and read the terms of service or are you just making shit up to justify this?

  • Chainweasel
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    I would be too, that’s lost income.

  • @boatsnhos931
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    Wow, what a body…I think this was either really stupid or really. I feel like this might have been leaked on purpose to get publicity…pity/empathy from the female voters and lust from everyone else. Whatever it was, she’s got my vote!

  • Ertebolle
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    I don’t think it’ll hurt her much; though there certainly is some degree of difference between a private video being leaked and a public livestream being saved / leaked, they’re still both illegal invasions of privacy and hence this will be viewed by most reasonable people as Republican skullduggery rather than any moral failing on her part.