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I find something wrong with an 8 year old being portrayed as older, in a "sexualized" way, because it seems twisted that magazines would publish pictures of these girls that many women may aspire to be like (including young girls of that age even), and men may aspire to be with (that is pretty sick).
Apart from that, I believe that since we are no longer in an age of censure, book burning, and tyranny, an online forum discussion is like being in a room with people having a private conversation, and so it seems really strange to me that this "advocate" and the people who wrote the article actually think they have any right to stop people from sharing their opinions with their friends. Whatever was said was not said directly to those people nor has it had any significant impact on how they are publicly viewed, nor was what was said published in any official context, so I find the claim of defamation pretty far-fetched.
I also agree that there are so many articles and discussions out there on this girl and others more recently (for example, model Maddison Gabriel who is 12), that it seems a bit loopy to come and pick on our particular chat.
They should actually go after the Australian PM, who in relation to Maddison Gabriel winning a modelling award in Sep. 2007 according to the UK's Daily Mail said that catapulting girls as young as 12 into something like that is outrageous.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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