May 22, 2013
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Kyle J. Bristow, Esq.
Associate Attorney, France Law Group
6545 W. Central Ave., Ste. 206
Toledo, OH 43617
(419) 725-9300
kbristow@francelawgroup.net
OHIO ATTORNEY
CALLS ON U.S. CONGRESS TO END REVENGE PORNOGRAPHY
Lawyer proposes
law to make website hosts liable for tortious conduct of users
Toledo,
Ohio – Ohio Internet lawyer Kyle J. Bristow of the Toledo-based France Law
Group, LLC, has called on the United States Congress to amend the
Communications Decency Act so that computer service providers that permit
revenge pornography websites to be hosted can be civilly sued or criminally
prosecuted under state or federal law.
Attorney Bristow sent letters to all thirty-nine members of the U.S.
Congress Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on May 22, in which he
proposed an amendment to the Communications Decency Act.
Revenge
pornography is a recent phenomenon in which pornographers post onto the
Internet nude images of American women—and their home addresses and contact
information—without their consent. The
victims of such websites often experience severe depression, job and
relationship loss, reputational injury, and a significant increase of being
raped by a stranger who frequents revenge pornography websites. It is common for victims of these websites to
receive hundreds of unwanted emails, text messages, and phone calls from
strangers who find their images online.
The cyber-harassment is omnipresent and lasts indefinitely.
Under
current federal law, the companies that permit revenge pornographers to host
websites are immune from civil suit and criminal prosecution. Attorney Bristow seeks to have this changed
so that irresponsible companies can be brought to justice for being complicit
in the victimization of American women.
Since
becoming a lawyer, Attorney Bristow has become nationally recognized as being
at the forefront on the war on revenge pornography. To date, he has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire Magazine, and a television
news program; he has launched a website to bring attention to the plague of
revenge pornography; he has represented numerous victims of revenge
pornography; and his legal efforts have resulted in two notorious revenge
pornography websites being permanently shut down.
“It is
time for Congress to act,” Attorney Bristow said. “Death to revenge pornography.”
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