‘Revenge Porn Law Represents Steady Progress’
“If this legislation is approved by the Senate, it will be illegal to distribute sexually explicit images of someone without their consent,” MP Ianthia Simmons-Wade said today, adding that “this revenge porn legislation represents steady progress by our PLP government in providing greater protection for our community.”
This follows after the Criminal Code Amendment [Non-Consensual Sharing of Intimate Images] Act 2021 was introduced in the House of Assembly, with the legislation introducing criminal offences and penalties relating to the non-consensual sharing, or threat of sharing, intimate images and prohibited visual recordings, as well as the offences of observing or making recordings in breach of a person’s privacy.”
MP Simmons-Wade said, “The PLP is once again making steady progress for Bermudians with the introduction of legislation that will criminalize ‘revenge porn,’ or in legal terms, the non-consensual distribution of intimate images online in any form.
“With social media and near-universal access to cameras, people, particularly women, have been victimized by attacks on their privacy through the malicious distribution of personal images without their consent.
“These attacks have ruined lives, ruined reputations, and even led to suicides. As your government, the PLP will ensure that these demeaning and dehumanizing attacks will be punished. And if this legislation is approved by the Senate, it will be illegal to distribute sexually explicit images of someone without their consent.
“The real-world impact is clear. If your ex, your current partner, or even someone who hacks your computer or mobile device shares intimate photos or videos of you against your will, or if anyone forwards intimate images sent to them they can be arrested, brought before the courts, and punished.
“Alongside the recent laws passed toughening of protection for children from abuse and exploitation, this revenge porn legislation represents steady progress by our PLP government in providing greater protection for our community.
“Please tune in to the House of Assembly this Friday when the government will push for the criminalizing of Revenge Porn.”
The Criminal Code Amendment [Non-Consensual Sharing Of Intimate Images] Act 2021 [PDF here]:
“this revenge porn legislation represents steady progress by our PLP government in providing greater protection for our community.”
Yes, and only 7 years after Canada passed such legislation (2014), 6 years after the U.K. passed such legislation (2015) and only after 46 of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia passed such legislation.
Thank you PLP Government for being so quick off the mark!
And, it should have been a no-brainer, a quick and easy win.
Well done PLP.
I guess OBA could have done this in 2012-2017?
Sure, they should have.
I guess they could have done a lot of things had they not wasted 4 years trying to put out endless fake fires manufactured by a combined opposition working with a ‘by any means necessary’ mindset.
Indeed
If pornography is illegal anyways in bermuda according to law, would not this more degrading form also be? uh doy