The Noble Audience

Inspired by the recent incident of Edison Chen, a pop star who got criminalised by the media over his explicit photos with various female stars, I've noticed how people can be unforgiving with things that happened in the past. And the hypocrisy of

In the case of Chen, the viewers were upset from mainly how the media portrayed him and his behaviour. Analysing his motivation in photographing his sexual encounters, condemning the behaviour but not the fact that these are private property that are being violated, and even detecting what kind of video equipment he used, are the tactics the media used to prove that he is as much of a perv as they say he is.

As a result, with the publicity, this piece of news has become the biggest news in Taiwan other than the presidential election and it's also the topic at the dinner table.

"So sick! What a hypocrite!" While the downloading rate of his photos has never been higher. Some even took it in as a business opportunity, giving it out as an extra for pornography order, a boost for the Taiwanese pirating industry.

While people making a buck and satisfying their perverse needs on the internet, the star made his farewell to the entertainment industry.

Maybe this whole thing will all blow over soon and Chen will be able to regain his career in the show-biz, but who is the real perv? A man who photographs intimate encounters or those who thrive and gets off by sharing someone else's pain and violation?