Amber Heard wants a new law to stop “revenge porn.”
In an op-ed for the New York Times, the actress speaks out on the issue of women’s private, intimate photos being leaked online and calling it pornography.
“This is precisely why ‘revenge porn’, the term often used to describe this abuse, is the wrong name: It is focused on intent rather than consent,” Heard writes, suggesting the term “nonconsensual pornography” instead. “What matters is not why the perpetrator disclosed the images; it is that the victim did not consent to the disclosure.
“That is why laws against nonconsensual pornography should look like laws against other privacy violations, like the laws that prohibit the unauthorized disclosure of a broad range of private information, such as medical records and Social Security numbers.”
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Calling on the U.S. government to pass a law specific to the problem, Heard writes, “Ending the violence of nonconsensual pornography should not be tied to fleeting cycles of outrage or cases involving celebrities but enshrined in the law to protect the right of intimate privacy for all of us.”
