Stay updated with breaking news from Cyber Exploitation. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
State Sen. Erica Harriss (R-Glen Carbon) filed legislation to protect minors from exposure to pornographic content online by implementing age verification requirements in Illinois.
Senate Republicans believe the plan could protect vulnerable children on the internet.
We were able to get in the house version called the shield act, which makes cyber exploitation, intimate image abuse a federal crime. that would be the first time it would be a federal crime. it's a big deal, it sends an important message to anyone who is considering sending these pictures or sharing these pictures of someone else, this is absolutely wrong. not just wrong for you as a individual, but wrong for us as a society and it has to not be normalized anymore. i'm really hopeful we'll make progress on this over the summer and that the senate ultimately brings it up for a vote. >> here in...
Decency and humanity. >> i don't feel it's the right move. if katie hill were a man who was in a con sensual relationship with another man and a woman that this would be a very different outcome. >> so of course she's supporting you but she's saying that you are giving cover to people who make the wrong decisions because this is not the way it would have gone if it were a man. so you're basically reenforcing the wrong dynamic, you should have stayed and fought. >> i don't think it's reinforcing it. i think what i have to do now is figure out what my next move is to ensure the lessons learned f...
>> i don't think it's reinforcing it. i think what i have to do now is figure out what my next move is to ensure the lessons learned from what happened to me are not ones that can be repeated. cyber exploitation is something that's relatively new. it has not been touched on a federal level in terms of addressing the issue. it's one i heard over and over again from young women. even at that point i didn't fully understand. i think it's something we'll have to take on in a meaningful way and i hope that my own experiences can lend to that effort. >> will you run again? >> i'm not writing anythin...