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>> welcome back, we're talking about domestic abuse going online. some go so far as to call it revenge porn. sharing compromising pictures of your partner online. others are going through what she did. rebecca wells, the founder of revenge porn, and thank you so much for being here and sharing your story. >> thank you. >> so rebecca, like a lot of people, you occasionally google yourself, and one day you typed in your name. and the unthinkable happened. >> i typed in my full name. and there was a website link, and it had explicit images of me, and i thought it was spam, but i clicked on it anyway, and up

popped a nude gallery of photos of me, and above the gallery was posted my full name and the city and the state where i live in very big, bold letters. and i was shocked, i was floored, i lost my breath. mortified. >> and you came to find out that allegedly, the fellow that you were dating, posted these, and also posted pictures of other women? >> yes, there are at least nine women in my town. their photos are posted as well and i called most of them and told them that their photos are up. and 99% of them are too embarrassed to deal with it, but i haven't heard back from them. it's really tragic >> is revenge porn abuse? >> it absolutely is. we're looking at a situation where someone takes the most intimate radios and photographs of you and uses them to shame

and punish and humiliate you, and it's a breach of confidentiality and sexual abuse without consent. >> there's this debate, lisa, about how to prosecute this. california has a bill that made it into a misdemeanor: here's a video comment from cathy. >> revenge porn, like the laws against it in california, criminalize speech. and it's a terrible thing, and i would like it see it eradicated. but i think unfortunately, in that instance, the eradication, for example, keeping a journalist from being able to post embarrassing photos of anthony weiner without facing

jail time make it not worth the cost. >> you heard that, and the aclu said that the amendment in california might infringe on free speech, and what's your response in >> because the intent of the california law, you have to demonstrate that they're intending to humiliate someone, and if it's narrowly tailored to putting explicit images on line, i think you're probably okay. you do have to worry any time you are passing a law that might fringe on a constitutional right. you don't want to be overbroad. but you want to clearly establish what you're trying to stop. and i think it's going to be okay. >> mary, the bill that just got signed in california, a lot of victims say that it doesn't go far enough. in order to be prosecuted under it, you have to be the person who took the picture. so in the circumstances that

we're talking about. these women have exchanged photos with their partners, and their partner isn't necessarily the one who took it. >> yes, that's the problem with the law, yes, if you took the picture yourself of the victim and you gave it to someone, and they disclose it without your consent, then the california law doesn't apply. and some early research suggests that 80% of the people affected by this did take the pictures of themselves in the first instance. the second problem is the intent to cause emotional distress, and this is a good move on the part of california. revenge porn is big business. there are those who are not trafficking in the material because they have a problem with the victims and don't want to harass them, but they just want to make a buck. and we have to make sura as was

pointed out before, they are narrowly drafted and we don't do things like intent to cause emotional distress. for all victims. >> well, facebook and dating sites have guidelines to protect people who have been victimized. but do they go far enough?

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