Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running in one of seven tossup House seats in the closely divided legislature, denounced the “illegal invasion of my privacy.”
A Democratic candidate in a crucial race for the Virginia General Assembly denounced reports on Monday that she and her husband had performed live on a sexually explicit streaming site.
Susanna Gibson, a nurse practitioner running in her first election cycle, said in a statement that the leaks about the online activity were “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”
The Washington Post and The Associated Press reported on Monday that tapes of live-streamed sexual activity had been recorded from a pornographic site and archived on another site. The New York Times has not independently verified the content of the videos. The Democratic Party of Virginia did not respond to a request for comment.
Ms. Gibson, 40, who appears on her campaign website in hospital scrubs as well as at home with her husband and two young children, is running for the House of Delegates in one of only a handful of competitive races that will determine control of the General Assembly. Republicans hold a slim majority in the House, and Democrats narrowly control the State Senate, but both chambers are up for grabs in November.
“I find it highly unlikely” should have been the operative phrase that gave away the fact that I’m not a judge or prosecutor, so my definition doesn’t really hold water in a court of law. Morehead v. Commonwealth of Virginia gives more information on what qualifies as “dissemination”, if you’re curious. The long and the short of it is that the offending husband actually uploaded images to a website, which completes the “widespread communication” process. Furthermore, chaturbate’s own privacy policy says, “all information and content you determine to share or stream through the Platform, including in ‘private’ and/or password protected situations, is considered public information”.
The sex was consensual, their faces were clearly visible, and the videos were uploaded willingly to a publicly accessible site by Ms. Gibson where she agreed that said content would be deemed public information. Seems pretty cut and dry to me.
That is not what the Chaturbate TOS says. She did not agree that the content would be public. Users are not allowed to download material off the site.