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well considered and highly nuanced opinions on The Wire and The Sopranos etc are often pretty much like shaved buttholes, everyone on Ilx has got them etc..

I don’t think Lena Dunham deserves all the hate and mockery she gets

poor timing

Agreed, just1n3

The best Star Wars movie is The Last Jedi

hellll y4qh

Agreed! Not a fan of star wars, but watched them all with my son as it's his thing and it was the first one I genuinely enjoyed

the best star wars movie is rogue one actually

which is the shortest one?

r2d2 innit?

obv the one with the hologram Peter Cushing makes u think - about death!

"best" isn't really appropriate since only one of them is good and it's Empire.

tbh Rogue One is my third favourite (after A New Hope and Empire)

Your opinions are not controversial enough >:(

i'd probably agree with that too fgti

Fine here's my controversial opinion:

Method acting classes are actually just a format for emotionally abusing aspirant actors into creepy pyramid schemes

i'd agree with that too, and add that second city / upright citizen's brigade-style programmes for aspiring comics are pretty much the same deal

Funerals are a waste of time and money.

damn, it's 'post things bg agrees with' day itt

Some cultures tend to agree.

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Parents should only be allowed to post one pic of their child online on social media a year up until the age of 6, after which the child must sign a release every year after.

Rogue One is even less entertaining than the prequels.

Not controversial.

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Parents should only not be allowed to post one any pic(s) of their child online on social media a year up until the age of 6,

Yeah^^^ basically. I tried to be a bit more fair though, nevermind that I always think of strangers jacking it to these pics of children online.

counterpoint: we've got a lot of extended family who love to see pictures of the kids and FB is a great way to do that, in fact it's one of the few things it's actually good for, also my kids are very cute

Make sure your account is locked down. Also, I just think it's bad that kids don't get a say in what is posted of them online. I got PISSED at my dad when I finally accepted his friend request on fb and saw a bunch of random pics of me in his profile that wasn't locked down.

hate to say it but your parents have an eternal, god-given right to distribute embarrassing photos of you and there's nothing you can do about it

yeah, but I have a right to privacy.

ok but lol at the idea that there are rando pedos trawling fb for banal photos of clothed children smiling in candid photos to jack it to; u realize these guys have a whole dark web full of actual child pornography?

It's hyperbole but I do get annoyed when I see friends posting playful pics of their children in the bath or playing topless in sprinklers. It's puritanical of course but dude, people are creeps.

Parents should only not be allowed to post one any pic(s) of their child online on social media a year up until the age of 6,

― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:57 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah^^^ basically. I tried to be a bit more fair though, nevermind that I always think of strangers jacking it to these pics of children online.

― Yerac, Thursday, December 6, 2018 9:59 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark

agree 100% minus the strangers jacking it part -- my mind tries to protect me from shit like that by pretending it doesn't happen (even though surely somewhere it does)
i feel creeped out and even sad every time i know abundant information about someone's kid and i don't know the actual kid. i feel sorry for them (they may not hate it as much as i would have as a child but i hated having my photo shared as a child a LOT)

i would raise the age of 6 to the age of consent

The privacy angle, as in data privacy not like other humans seeing photos of you, is definitely more worrying.

My sister uses a private flickr account to share photos of her kids, and while I'm glad FB isn't building user profiles of her children before they're in kindergarten, I do worry that flickr, like friendster, will get sold to some random data miner when their new owners realize there's no money in it.

hate to say it but your parents have an eternal, god-given right to distribute embarrassing photos of you
this is not true. parents do not have a right to exploit their child's image.

Yeah, I haven't met some of my friends's kids who live far away but I see so many pics of them online that I feel like I know them. And they have absolutely no say in how their images get distributed online, forever saved.

ilx conversations about rights and morality are some of the least enlightening conversations on the site we're much better when we stick to whatever pop album cosmo loves this month

For me I don't care about my own childhood images because I don't think I am so indentifiable in them but more recent pics that I sent to my parents that went straight online. Like, NO. I don't even put them online.

I got PISSED at my dad when I finally accepted his friend request on fb and saw a bunch of random pics of me in his profile that wasn't locked down.

Yeah, this really bugs me too, how Facebook and Instagram give people a license to post photos of other people without their permission.

my god folks

my god

worse ye get

my mom sometimes posts pictures of me that i don't like because it's a bad angle or something, but i think that's just because i am extremely vain

i'd never get mad at her for it. that seems crazy

you should never post a picture of someone publicly without asking for their consent
that is basic

if the person says no, do not post the picture
if they say yes, it is ok

Everyone has a different expectation of privacy and control of the information out on the internet.

xxxp
now you that you are a confirmed sex symbol you've got to protect that brand treesh!

caveat: if the person is performing/on a stage, you can presume they are consenting to being photographed unless they state otherwise

what are you talking about? xp

i am good with the new social norm of not posting pics of people without their consent. i would always ask people, but i didn't know it was a thing before. if someone posted an obviously embarrassing photo, of course i would always think that was out of line/mean

but just like group photos and photos from events--i just untag myself if i don't like the photo