European students retaliate against surging revenge porn amid lockdown

Digital sex abuse is increasingly common although countries do not collect such data. FMTNews

Online abuse can have serious consequences, often making victims feel suicidal.

“During lockdown and as the world moves online … women and girls are exposed to higher risks,” said Johanna Nelles, executive secretary of the Istanbul Convention, a European treaty to prevent violence against women. Britain’s state-funded Revenge Porn Helpline said on Tuesday it opened some 250 cases in April – a record number and double that of the previous April, despite only offering an email service during a nationwide lockdown that began on March 23.With schools shut, more children are spending time online where they risk being groomed and blackmailed over private photos of themselves.

Online platforms are needed so that children can report abuses more easily, as they are often uncomfortable using the phone, said Moral. Working together with a lawyer and about 20 friends, Clemot Maclaren has succeeded in getting more than 200 accounts deleted by reporting them to the social networks involved, the police and the interior ministry. Revenge porn is an offence in France.

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