When Francesca Mani was 14 years old, boys at her New Jersey high school used nudify apps to target her and other girls. At the time, adults did not seem to take the harassment seriously, telling her to move on after she demanded more severe consequences than just a single boy’s one or two-day suspension.
Mani refused to take adults’ advice, going over their heads to lawmakers who were more sensitive to her demands. And now, she’s won her fight to criminalize deepfakes. On Wednesday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a law that he said would help victims “take a stand against deceptive and dangerous deepfakes” by making it a crime to create or share fake AI nudes of minors or non-consenting adults—as well as deepfakes seeking to meddle with elections or damage any individuals’ or corporations’ reputations.
Furthermore…
Until recently, if it was in Australia she could have been gagged by the court supposedly for her own protection.
So a court decision could go against her for absurd reasons which ignore facts but nobody would be allowed to talk publicly about such injustice.
Grace “Tame was groomed and repeatedly sexually assaulted by a paedophile teacher, but for years Tasmania’s gag laws meant she was unable to speak out, while her abuser bragged on Facebook.”
Similar gag laws still apply in Australia.