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5th November 2016
12:30pm GMT

“A lot of well-known faces, including mine, were photoshopped onto naked bodies and now I’m basically on porn websites, which is fantastic (said sarcastically).” “I’m not upset about it, I’m annoyed about it. “They (pictures) go up and there’s nothing I can do about it. They go up onto one site, then they go up onto hundreds of sites and you can’t get them down. They’ll never come down.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpLP248JY8&feature=youtu.be No legal framework currently exists in Ireland to prosecute a person who uploads an image of another person without consent, unless they are underage. Williams said that the pictures could potentially affect her employment prospects, particularly when working in London, and also spoke of the wider consequences of revenge porn on the Internet.
“There’s not really, at the moment, any laws in Ireland to stop all that and I suppose the Internet, you can’t stop it, it’s like wildfire".Following Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s calls for a national conversation about pornography, sexologist Emily Power Smith and columnists Brenda Power and Ian O’Doherty engaged in a debate on the topic on the Late Late Show, snippets of which can be seen below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh-1dzUrekc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN0YJHZgPQY All clips via The Late Late Show
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