LAWS 3501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Revenge Porn, Victimisation, Victim Impact Statement
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Week 4: legal responses to non- consensual intimate. Harm caused by revenge porn: humiliation and embarrassment. Loss of family or friends: anxiety and depression, connection to physical violence or threats of violence. Loss of job or concern for future career prospects. Fear for your safety, part of a campaign of harassment or domestic violence. "showing off" especially in youth cases: domestic violence and harassment, make money or gain attention/online following, using revenge porn sites to blackmail people. Legal history of revenge porn: charges used before we had non-consensual intimate image sharing laws. Images can be easily shared with a large audience (scalability) Images can be easily recorded and archived (persistence: they can be easily copied and shared (replicability, they can be easily accessed by others and found in the future (searchability) Focus on how digital technology has made it much easier to share revenge porn, how it can spread extremely fast around the entire globe.
