According to The Guardian, the UK has jailed its first revenge porn perpetrator. Luke King, 21 has been jailed for posting revenge porn online. He was given a 12-week sentence after pleading guilty to
online harassment.
It appears that Mr. King had published naked photos of a woman
on WhatsApp earlier this year after threatening her. On October 13, 2014, I discussed that the UK was set to criminalize revenge porn because it is a growing problem not only in the UK but also around the world.
While a 12-week sentence may not sound like much for harassing someone online, it may make someone think twice before posting compromising photos of others in the future. It is too soon to speculate whether the UK's new revenge porn law is a strong enough deterrence.
The law is constantly trying to catch up with technology so it doesn't surprise me that this may be the first case in the UK where someone was jailed for uploading revenge porn. A major challenge with revenge porn is the likelihood of needing to play a game of whack a mole to remove it from the Internet. Once content is posted online it is extremely difficult for it to be permanently removed.
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