Sexual Assault Is a Free Speech Issue
Mary Anne Franks has spent years fighting against online abuse. When people are abused with impunity, she says, the message becomes “We do not care about women’s voices.”
Mary Anne Franks, a law professor specializing in civil rights, free speech, and technology, explains that the term "image-based sexual abuse" is crucial in describing the nonconsensual sharing of sexual recordings or manipulated images. She emphasizes that the label "revenge porn," historically used by abusers, is problematic as it blames victims and renders the act trivial.
Franks advocates for terms like "nonconsensual pornography" and "image-based sexual abuse" to accurately convey the severity and various forms of these abuses. In the Cornell sexual assault case, Jane Doe alleges that one of the attackers, after committing the assault, posted explicit images of her on Snapchat, inviting others to the scene.
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