Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn"

mi contributes this excerpt from National Journal: "Sen. Al Franken is urging the FBI to more quickly and aggressively pursue and respond to reports of revenge porn, marking a rare burst of attention on a controversial topic about which Congress has typically been quiet. In a letter to FBI Director James Comey, the Minnesota Democrat asked for more information about the agency's authority to police against revenge porn, or the act of posting explicit sexual content online without the subject's consent, often for purposes of humiliation and extortion. Its popularity has ballooned in recent years, and victims are disproportionately women." Here's Franken's letter.

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[quantaman]

As with most of these "issues", it's not about equality. It's about raising a major stink about a minor thing in order to get "support" (attention, votes, money, etc.).

Because an egregious violation of someone's privacy that's can be traumatizing as a sexual assault is a minor thing.

Right on time

[PopeRatzo]

It's Friday night, and that means it's Men's Rights Activist and GamerGater Night on Slashdot. I'm not sure what it is about Friday night that makes the 8channers flock over here, but there it is. Maybe it's young men angry about not having dates that sets them off. But whatever the reason, for the past several months, every single Friday night we have timothy sending up the 8chan batsignal with a story like this that's little more than clickbait for the slime on the bottom of the internet.

If you believe violating another person's privacy by posting images that were given to you in confidence during a relationship is "protected speech" or that such gross violations of privacy to settle a personal score is the fault of the victim, I think your anger is somewhat misdirected. You might want direct a little bit at the people who raised you and who should have been responsible for teaching you the difference between right and wrong. Because make no mistake, you were not raised right.