While we wait out resolution of this whole Section 230 thing, there is a diffferent angle to Revenge Porn that does not touch Section 230.
10 FACTS:
1. Section 230 protects Revenge Porn website owners.
2. Section 230 DOES NOT protect the third parties - the perpetrators - who post the photos.
3. When we make it a crime for these perpetrators to post the photos (like New Jersey has already done), a woman can report it to the police. (Article: New Jersey Man Arrested for Posting Nude Photos of His Former Girlfriend).
4. When the police order the website owners to remove the photos, they must comply.
5. If the website owners do not comply, they are an accessory to a crime.
6. So, the website owners remove the photos.
7. Or they don't. So, the police get a court order to shut down or DNS block the website. (But the website owner is still guilty of accessory to a crime).
8. Trolls stop posting photos due to fear of criminal consequences.
9. The Revenge Porn empire quickly crumbles with nothing to sustain it.
10. That's all for now.
This all depends on amendment of state cyberstalking laws. So, please sign our petitions!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
New Jersey's Criminalization of Revenge Porn
N.J. Stat. Ann.sect; 2C:14-9
"An actor commits a crime of the third degree if, knowing that he is not licensed or privileged to do so, he discloses any photograph, film, videotape, recording or any other reproduction of the image of another person whose intimate parts are exposed or who is engaged in an act of sexual penetration or sexual contact, unless that person has consented to such disclosure. For purposes of this subsection, "disclose" means sell, manufacture, give, provide, lend, trade, mail, deliver, transfer, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, advertise or offer."