Pandy · 7 answers · 1y

What are your thoughts on a law that requires professional online models (i.e. those who make money with content from their body) to disclose where video or photo filters / editing is used?

What purpose would that serve? Sounds like a rule from somebody who really has no clue how visual arts are done.

Oh… kind of like the labels that we put on tobacco products and alcohol? We know those are very convincing.

I think its a good idea. It's like selling a car you want to know how many repairs have been done to it before buying it😄

It's a terrible idea, look at how Disney uses copyright law right now - such a law would 100% be used to target and eliminate small businesses and creators, and the larger entities would 100% carve out loopholes for themselves by buying of regulators... just leave it alone and leave it to the consumers of the product

I think they should disclose when filters/editing is used, but it seems a little overreaching to make a law about it. I guess the idea is to lessen the effect of unrealistic beauty standards, but I don't think that's a solid enough justification to make a law like that.

I don't think we require a law, the platform just showing that a filter was applied would be a start already.

Then again, even if that was displayed, I'm not sure if it would generally help with perception and self-conciousness of users on social media.

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