This week, first lady Melania Trump participated in a roundtable discussion with lawmakers and victims about the scourge of “revenge porn”—viz., the online posting of intimate photographs or films without the consent of the party involved.
She urged lawmakers to pass the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, also known as the Take It Down Act, a new bipartisan bill that was recently introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.).
Good for her.
Along with doxxing, phishing, spoofing, and the like, revenge porn is one of the major harms that modern-day communications technology poses.
The principal, but not exclusive, victims of this tawdry practice are women in their teens, 20s, or 30s who allow someone to photograph them in a risqué pose or who are photographed without…
