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Should "Revenge Porn" be Illegal?

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No

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[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/revenge-porn-california_n_3825670.html]Article[/url] [quote]“I never thought that this person would have done this to me,” said an anonymous woman to WGN Chicago. "I thought he was the one that I was going to end up marrying." The woman was a victim of "revenge porn"--the practice of posting nude or graphic content of a person online without his or her consent. During a relationship, she sent private, explicit photos to her boyfriend. But after a rocky breakup, he posted them online. Now, she can't escape them. “It’s the worst betrayal that could ever happen to someone," she said. Scorned lovers have long sought revenge on exes, but in the age of the Internet, smartphone cameras and YouTube, it's a whole new ballgame. On Tuesday, the California State Assembly debated Senate Bill 255, which would make revenge porn a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,000 fine. The bill cleared the Senate by a 37-1 earlier this summer. "Right now law enforcement has no tools to combat revenge porn or cyber-revenge," said Sen. Anthony Cannella (R-Ceres), who proposed the bill, in a statement. "Unfortunately it is a growing trend and there are a lot of victims out there, a lot more than I ever imagined. It's destroying people's lives.”[/quote] I agree with this law. I don't think it should be OK for anyone to post naked pictures of someone else for revenge. It's already against the law to reveal private information about other individuals to an extent, depending on where you are, who the other person is, and who the information was revealed to. I think that intimate pictures that are clearly meant to be private should be protected by the law. So do you agree that revenge porn should be against the law? Or should it be considered protected speech?

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  • Is showing my friends a naked, physical photograph of an ex any different from uploading digital nudes of her to the internet? While the first is probably morally questionable, it's not a crime (last I checked, anyway).

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