My best guess is they do this to prevent defamation lawsuits against themselves. The person can't come back and say XYZ news corp accused me of posting revenge porn and tarnished my reputation.

It isn't, in this case. It says the law may have been broken. Until a prosecutor comes along and goes for an indictment, then the person is convicted, saying that they broke a law isn't a fact.

It's splitting hairs for casual conversation, but when it comes to making a public statement, you run into libel issues.

So, while it grumpy definitely is a fact that the pictures are released, and that she did so, no legitimate press is going to say she broke that law, only that she may have. If she's indicted, then they could say "charged with", or similar language. But until a jury in a criminal case renders a verdict, the press as a whole wouldn't be protected if they said she broke the law. Well, there's other things that would clear that language for use, but they still involve determination of guilt in the courts

Basically, it covers their ass.

Because Republican men are obsessed with schlongs.

I don't think even gay men are as obsesses with schlongs as Republicans are.

I mean, it’s a good lookin hog.

This is something I've noticed in recent years too - take something ordinary and normal, whip up a big frenzy over it, and then bask in the chaos.

Not just this but a lot of things. Usually it's some court procedure, some clerical process, something actually quite boring. I remember during the election they were getting mad over ballots being picked up by some guy in a van - well, that's the guy who picks em up

It's like getting mad at the mailman for delivering the mail. But you can dramatize anything - every single day a man who you probably don't even know drives around your neighborhood and stops at every single house. He has things which are your property and sometimes he even takes things out of your mailbox and puts them in a bag where you can't see them anymore, probably never again. And there's nothing you can do about it.

I would love for it to happen too, but not gonna happen. Democrats are too cowardly to go after these right wing clowns.

This is similar to the issue where Republican politicians are shipping people who crossed the border illegally to MA and CA and DC. Democrats should be going after those clowns who organized all this with human trafficking and other crimes, but they won't because Dems just want to the issue to go away. But because Dems always back down, Republicans are emboldened to do it again and again.

If this is one of the actual pictures, you should not be sharing this.