What Should We Do About Revenge Porn Sites Like Texxxan? (Forbes Cross-Post)
10 02 2013Periodically, a new controversy springs up about a website that encourages users to post anti-social or distasteful content. A few years ago it was sites like JuicyCampus or People’s Dirt that requested users to gossip about each other; followed by IsAnyoneUp? that linked user-submitted pornographic photos to the subject’s Facebook page. The latest website to stir up a media frenzy is Texxxan.com, which encourages users to post “revenge porn,” i.e., pornographic depictions of former lovers, ostensibly to get revenge on them.
The Texxxan Lawsuit Will Fail
UPDATE: Prof. Mary Anne Franks (University of Miami) offers numerous criticisms of this post, including explaining why “Prof. Goldman’s piece, and revenge porn defenses generally, goes beyond garden-variety victim-blaming.”
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