Texas just passed a law banning dick pics: Via voxdotcom
Now Bumble hopes to convince Congress to consider such legislation. One place it’s already been floated is New York City, where commuters experience a form of harassment enabled by close proximity: people can use their phone’s AirDrop feature to send unsolicited dick pics or other images to people seated in their subway car — and, as
Both the New York City and Texas efforts could pose enforcement challenges. As Issie Lapowsky notes at Wired, it’s hard to identify the sender of an AirDrop dick pic. J.T. Morris, an attorney who specializes in First Amendment cases,that the law could run into problems if an accused person says a third party sent the images through a hack or some other means.
The law may also face trouble in court, experts say. Sending nude pictures “enjoys the protection of the First Amendment because it is not a true threat, incitement, or negligent defamation of [a] private person,” Danielle Citron, a law professor at Boston University and vice president of the, which fights revenge porn and other online abuse, told Vox in an email.
Roche said Bumble has no desire to curtail free expression. “However, just like we should have the choice of who sees us naked, we should absolutely have the choice of who we would like to see naked,” she said.
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