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Transnational Thursday for June 20, 2024

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In Australian news, 9 years jail-time (5.5 non-parole) for a guy who posted pictures of women superimposed onto pornography.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/man-jailed-for-sharing-fake-images-of-women-he-knew-on-porn-site/ca1myxahk

Andrew Thomas Hayler has been sentenced to nine years in jail for posting images of women on a pornographic site.

He posted photos of friends, colleagues and housemates and superimposed their faces onto sexually explicit images.

Judge Jane Culver said Hayler's actions had caused "profound harm" to the victims.

He pleaded guilty to 28 counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass and offend, telling a court his offending was an "outlet for a part of his psyche he didn't want".

Along with posting the images, Hayler also made comments such as "she is a future rape victim", "I am closing in on this sl--", "I now know where she lives" and "let's claim her as ours".

Pleading guilty is supposed to get you 25% off in our system. He'll almost certainly appeal and get the sentence greatly reduced, which the judge should really have been aware of in theory-of-mind terms. She's known to be a harsh sentencer. For context, the maximum penalty for trafficking commercial quantities of drugs is 10 years (large commercial quantities is higher). Grievous bodily harm? Max 10 years.

At the same time we have an ongoing debate about restructuring rape/sexual assault trials to ensure the victim can't be cross-examined so intensely. Presumably as women get more and more influence in the legal system this trend of favouring female interests will continue.

Interesting that the word "slut" is now considered sufficiently offensive to censor in state media.

The stated purpose of SBS is "to provide multilingual and multicultural radio and television services that inform, educate and entertain all Australians and, in doing so, reflect Australia's multicultural society"

They're generally pretty accurate though, it's mostly in story selection and presentation that their slant appears.

I'm Australian myself; that's how I knew SBS was state media. I'm merely noting that "slut" wouldn't have been censored 20 or even probably 10 years ago.

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