'Revenge porn' law passed in Britain

[inanna]

Source: Agence France Presse

45 minutes ago

London (AFP) - A new law banning "revenge porn" -- sexually explicit images shared online by a former partner without their ex's consent -- was passed in England and Wales Thursday.

The law covers images shared on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter as well as those spread by SMS, email and online.

"It's a start," Laura Higgins from the UK Safer Internet Centre, which manages a revenge porn helpline, told AFP.

"It's a very big problem. For every case that we deal with, we find dozens of other people's profiles who probably don't know that they're online yet," she said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/revenge-porn-law-passed-133741191.html

[valerief]

1. I think the US has more Stand Your Ground states than revenge porn ban states.

Shows what's most valued here. Killing.

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/04/18/does-your-state-have-stand-your-ground-law
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119295/revenge-porn-laws-state-map-shows-theyre-rare-us

[msongs]

2. ultimate solution is to stop allowing one's self to be photographed in compromising situations nt

[LanternWaste]

3. Ultimate solution I think would be eradication of all cameras. Both as practical and as relevant...

Ultimate solution I think would be eradication of all cameras. Both as practical and as relevant as the other.

[inanna]

4. The ultimate solution is jail time for those who seek

to abuse and humiliate others in order to get their kicks.

And now, that's exactly what is starting to happen.

[u4ic]

6. .

[smirkymonkey]

12. +1000

[OriginalGeek]

7. Absolutely not.

I have every right to take whatever pics of whatever activities in whatever state of undress with another consenting adult that I want to. And I have every right to expect those pictures to not be shared with the public without my consent. END of story.

[cstanleytech]

8. Well you are half right.

The last part though is the problem as you didnt have a "right" to that until recently as before it was an expectation that the other party would not be a douchebag and share them with others.

[OriginalGeek]

9. True

I SHOULD have a right to expect not to be shared without consent. I'm glad it's starting to be that way.

[cstanleytech]

10. I do wonder though how they are going to handle the old photos and videos that

were taken in the past before the law was enacted.

[marble falls]

5. Revenge porn is rape. And needs to be punished seriously.

[inanna]

11. And if these psychopaths don't want to go to JAIL

then I guess they shouldn't post intimate photos of others online without consent.