"Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and outspoken advocate of victims of nonconsensual porn, calls the verdict “groundbreaking.” She says it’s rare for victims to have the funds to sue their harassers, and that this pro-bono case helps establish “that there can be serious financial consequences to perpetrators.” That, she says, could act as a deterrent to future would-be revenge pornographers."
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