Ioana Lupea: "Instead of asking ourselves how the recordings are obtained and how they reach the public space, we have high moral and political debates."
The career and image of a women have been destroyed in a few seconds by a video recording of a sexual act, posted on the blog of a journalist. Although it is not known with certainty whether the film is authentic or if the person whose face appears on the record is the one identified by bloggers and their commentators, there are already being made judgments about women in politics and the decisions of the party are made in consequence. What entitles a journalist to state, about that certain video, that "it comes to reinforce the idea that the parties are throwing more beautiful women in the electoral battle because they are presentable and are attracting votes?" Or a politician to throw the stone in his presumptive guilty colleague of love in the car, just a week after he said, referring to some minor girls, that their political future "depends on how they move"?
Instead of asking ourselves how the recordings are obtained and how they reach the public space, we have high moral and political debates. How to have sex and what strategic-ideological implication has am erotic position or another. In a civilized country, status to which Romania is no longer even aspiring, the discussion would be primarily about the right to privacy, protected by the Constitution and by laws, mocked by the media for audience and money. The victims are usually ordinary people, as the French language professor from Zalău, whose reputation was ruined by the publication of intimate images obtained fraudulently. Subjected to the judgment of the public for making love with her husband in the conjugal bedroom, the woman was forced to take a year of unpaid leave. On television, in newspapers or on the Internet have been made public, since the entry on our market of the mobile phones with video cameras, dozens of photos and movies with teenagers caught during sexual acts, without any responsibility for the consequences of the fact. Although the clandestine intrusions in the life of a person may have serious psychological effects on it, up to loneliness and suicide.
Outrageous is that the state authorities are considering such events normal. Socially isolated, sometimes left without the support of the family, there is no justice for the victims, although many of the recordings are made to blackmail. The planting of interception means audio or video in the home or car of someone without a warrant from a prosecutor or judge, is an offense. In conflict with the law enters the publication of these materials, audio and video without the consent of the person. The right to privacy is restricted only when there is a legitimate public interest or if the recording is incidental and carried out in public places. The sex life of high school students, teachers or women-politician is not in the public interest.
The discussion around the erotic film in which it's supposed that appears a woman politician will be extinguished, because the objective of its publication was probably reached. The danger that, at any time, any of us could be the hero of such disclosures remains. The walls have ears, the windows have eyes.
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