Sentences with phrase «called revenge porn»

Billed as a federal remedy for so - called revenge porn, the proposed Intimate Privacy Protection Act is hailed by Peter Thiel in Monday's New York Times as a «step in the right direction.»

The United States House of Representatives is considering the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, a bipartisan bill that would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images, sometimes called revenge porn, without the consent of the people involved.

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In an era when Mark Zuckerberg can be called on the carpet by Senate investigators because of possible wrongdoing by Facebook over the Russian hacking scandal — and at a time when researchers are actively examining whether social media is psychologically, maybe even physically addictive — revenge porn as a public policy issue is on the ascent.

She was accused of suppressing free speech by approving the ban of nude pictures and revenge porn on the site, and by shutting down discussion forums called subreddits that had been specifically created to harass others.