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SecularMotion

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Tue Sep 24, 2013, 09:40 AM Sep 2013

Victims Push Laws to End Online Revenge Posts

He was a muscular guy with “kind of a nerdy kind of charm,” Marianna Taschinger recalled, a combination that proved irresistible to an 18-year-old girl in a small Texas town.

They dated, broke up, dated again. He asked her to pick out a wedding ring. He also made another request — that she take nude pictures of herself and send them to him.

“He said if I didn’t want to send them to him, that meant that I didn’t trust him, which meant that I didn’t love him,” Ms. Taschinger said.

The photos would never be shared with anyone else, she remembers him promising. And she believed him — until last December, more than a year after the couple broke up, when a dozen nude images of her popped up on a Web site focusing on what has become known as revenge porn. She is suing the site and her ex-boyfriend.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/victims-push-laws-to-end-online-revenge-posts.html?hp&_r=0
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Victims Push Laws to End Online Revenge Posts (Original Post) SecularMotion Sep 2013 OP
That guy is an asshole gopiscrap Sep 2013 #1
Kick SecularMotion Sep 2013 #2

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