Thanks in part to Goldberg’s advocacy, 46 states now enforce laws against the distribution of nonconsensual pornography, or “revenge porn”, but the war on dick pics has just begun.
Last year, councilman Joseph Borelli, a Republican from Staten Island, co-sponsored a bill (yet to pass) that would make cyberflashing – sharing nudes via Apple’s AirDrop feature, which allows people to anonymously send content to other devices within a 10-meter radius – punishable by up to a $1,000 fine or one year in jail.
“In the old days, you had to have a long trench coat and good running shoes,” Borelli told the New York Times. “Technology has made it significantly easier to be a creep.”
Cyberflashing has been illegal in Scotland since 2010, and Singapore criminalized the practice this May. In the state of South Carolina, anonymously sending an “obscene, profane, indecent, vulgar, suggestive, or immoral” file without the recipient’s consent can be punished by up to three years of imprisonment.
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