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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Race To Stop 'Revenge Porn' Raises Free Speech
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Race To Stop 'Revenge Porn' Raises Free Speech Worries
http://j.mp/1fbdVau (NPR)
"This is a delicate issue," says Lee Rowland of the American Civil
Liberties Union, who says the legislation is "spreading like
wildfire." "The ACLU is concerned both with the protection of privacy
and free speech rights." "But the reality is that revenge porn laws
tend to criminalize the sharing of nude images that people lawfully
own," says Rowland, a lawyer with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and
Technology Project. "That treads on very thin ice constitutionally."
The compelling constitutional questions, however, have not slowed the
state-level efforts to criminalize the distribution and posting of
explicit photos or videos without the consent of the subject.
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The intersection of privacy and free speech is clearly among the most
complex policy-related Internet areas. No simple answers.
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