New law banning cyberflashing to be included in Online Safety Bill

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New law banning cyberflashing to be included in Online Safety Bill

Cyberflashing is to become a criminal offence, with those found guilty facing up to two years in prison. The practice involves the sending of unsolicited sexual images to victims through social media, dating apps or using data sharing services including Bluetooth and Airdrop. A new law to ban...

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Cyberflashing is to become a criminal offence, with those found guilty facing up to two years in prison.

The practice involves the sending of unsolicited sexual images to victims through social media, dating apps or using data sharing services including Bluetooth and Airdrop. In some cases a preview of the image appears on the person's device even if they reject the transfer request.

It's thought almost half of young women have been targeted. Among teenagers, the figure is even higher.

 

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As happy as I am to imagine a world where these brainrotted lowlifes are being treated like irl flashers, this is getting included in an anti-free speech law who's negatives are going to outweigh the consequences.

This just about sums it up:

The Bill will also put more legal responsibility on social media platforms, search engines and other websites or apps to tackle a range of illegal and harmful content on their services.

Hmm, where have I heard that before.......... oh right, FOSTA/SESTA.