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The online safety bill proposes forcing internet providers to be more proactive in removing image-based sexual abuse, rather than waiting for victims to report it. To tackle this crime, the UK government is trying to regulate the internet.

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The Most Hated Man on the Internet series gave a sense of what was happening in the US, but not in the UK. On this basis, many campaigners and researchers argue it should be a specific sexual crime. A 2017 study found that the impact on victims of this kind of sexual abuse is similar to that of sexual assault. “Upskirting” and images of breastfeeding taken without consent are also forms of sexual abuse, and evidence of the sexual harm caused to women in our society. We live in a society where misogyny and male entitlement leads to violence against women and girls. Others thought it was “a laugh”, an attitude shared by the perpetrators in the Netflix documentary. A 2021 study of over 2,000 British people conducted by the law firm Slater & Gordon found some men wanted to scare their victim. Many people imagine an angry ex-partner commits this crime for retaliation after an unwanted break-up. Most image-based sexual abuse is perpetrated by ex-partners. Their images are generally shared without their permission by men, though not usually those who hack into their accounts. Data from early 2022 shows that in the UK, 81% were. Because of this, many experience mental health issues including PTSD and depression.Īs the docuseries showed, victims are usually female. Victims of revenge porn become isolated and frightened of what others think of them. There are now over 3,000 websites dedicated to image-based sexual abuse, and reports to the government’s revenge porn helpline are increasing year on year. The internet is saturated with such images. The series doesn’t make especially clear that it is normal to take and send images of yourself as part of sexual self-expression, but when someone shares them without consent, it can be a form of domestic abuse. While I’ve used it above as most readers will be familiar with the term, for the rest of the article I will talk instead about image-based sexual abuse. It also blames the victim, because it suggests they did something to deserve revenge. This term overlooks that private images shared without consent are not always actually pornographic. The docuseries could have gone further by talking about brave women as victims of gender-based violence, not just “revenge porn”. The series showed how the thousands of people who share the image play a role in revenge porn, not just the first person to upload them.Īs a former probation officer, I’m interested in how society views sexual crime, and how we treat women who are victims. The women in the series were not stereotyped as being naïve or at fault, as they often are in media coverage. The documentary captures what revenge porn is, how it is carried out and how traumatic it can be for victims. The convicted criminal and self-described “professional life ruiner” Moore enabled the non-consensual distribution of thousands of private images by founding “revenge porn” website Is Anyone Up?. The most hated man on the internet, according to a new Netflix docuseries, is Hunter Moore.