[ NNSquad ] Race To Stop 'Revenge Porn' Raises Free Speech Worries

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

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.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
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