A man has been sentenced to jail for about six months for posting naked pictures of his ex-girlfriend! Â The Australian man posted the photos for revenge. Â Well now the dramatic deicision he made landed him in jail with a broken heart.
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Posting embarrassing naked photos of yourself on Facebook is also a terrible idea, though somewhat less terrible, as I’m of the mindset that if you want to make an asshat of yourself, you should go right ahead. Just leave others out of it.
Although there has yet to be a case of someone in the United States being sent to jail for sharing nude photos via social media, a seminal case in Australia should serve as a warning for scorned lovers everywhere. According to theSydney Morning Herald:
A jilted boyfriend who put nude pictures of his former lover on Facebook has been sentenced to six months’ jail – the first social networking-related conviction in Australian history and one of just a handful in the world.
Ravshan â€Ronnie†Usmanov told police: â€I put the photos up because she hurt me and it was the only thing [I had] to hurt her.â€
Apparently she ran over to his home, demanded he take the photos down, and when he didn’t, she called the cops.
SMH.com goes on to explain how another malicious over-sharer has been been successfully prosecuted against:The court could cite just one other relevant case in which a 20-year-old New Zealand man was sentenced to four months’ jail in Wellington in 2010 for posting nude pictures of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook.
Here in the United States we have a multitude of sites dedicated to posting “Revenge Picsâ€, including one highlighting a photo of young lady making a straining face while on the toilet, skirt down. Lovely. And so far neither the creators of these sites, nor the people who share revenge pics, have been sent to jail.
So what can we learn from this? While Americans who post revenge pics in the public sphere do not currently face jail time, I sense this outcome isn’t far off. And while in your haze of tears and shots of Bacardi Limon, it may seem perfectly justified to post a photo of your ex-girlfriend on the toilet, or of your ex-boyfriend measuring his willy, it could potentially land you in jail someday.
