Georgia Harrison urges immediate 'revenge porn' removal: 'A kill switch for abusive images'
TV personality Georgia Harrison called for the instant removal of non-consensual sexual images online, speaking at Labour's conference.
Georgia Harrison urges immediate 'revenge porn' removal: 'A kill switch for abusive images' TV personality Georgia Harrison called for the instant removal of non-consensual sexual images online, speaking at Labour's conference. She advocates for a 'kill switch' to stop the spread of 'revenge porn' immediately, rather than waiting 48 hours for tech firms to respond. Harrison shared her personal experience with a vindictive ex-partner and criticized the online culture that promotes such content. TV personality Georgia Harrison today called for the immediate removal of online 'revenge porn' images as she spoke at Labour's conference in Liverpool. The former star of reality shows The Only Way Is Essex and Love Island said explicit content shared without consent should be taken down 'there and then'. Harrison Calls for Immediate Image RemovalHarrison, 31, is campaigning for a 'kill switch' to instantly freeze the spread of abusive sexual images online. This is rather than the 48 hours that tech firms currently have to take down 'revenge porn' or risk having their websites blocked in the UK. Harrison's ex-partner Stephen Bear was jailed in 2023 and put on the sex offenders register for posting intimate footage of her online in a 'revenge porn' case.Appearing on the main stage at Labour's conference on Wednesday, Harrison spoke about her ordeal before issuing a call for further action from tech firms and ministers.TV personality Georgia Harrison today called for the immediate removal of online 'revenge porn' images as she spoke at Labour's conference in Liverpool The former star of reality shows The Only Way Is Essex and Love Island said explicit content shared without consent should be taken down 'there and then' Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy hugged Harrison at the end of her speech, before telling her: 'We're going to do it' 'A man I trusted once filmed the most private moment of my life without my knowledge and shared it with the world,' she said.'Within a week it had been seen by more people than I will meet in my entire life. I still walk down streets and I wonder which of the people coming towards me has seen it.'I was given a choice that nobody should ever have to make; disappear quietly or stand up in a courtroom and say my own name out loud. I chose my name.'I chose my name, he went to prison and the law of this country changed. ' Harrison said that her experience was 'never really about a video' but 'about what one man believed a woman's body was for'. Amid fears about the influence of the so-called online 'manosphere' on young boys in Britain, Harrison added: 'That belief didn't start with him, it doesn't end with him.Online Misogyny Targets Young Boys'It's being made now every day on purpose for profit. 'Somewhere tonight a young boy will go up to his bedroom to do his homework and a man he will never meet will teach him that cruelty is strength, and a woman's body is content. 'He isn't a bad boy, he is a market. It is the biggest classroom in Britain and nobody built it, nobody runs it and, I'll tell you what, nobody answers for it.'Because the internet stopped being somewhere we visit a long time ago. It's part of where we live now and nobody should have to live in a place without values.'This is the oldest story in the world told by the newest technology in it. ' Harrison went on to directly address Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, who was sitting on stage as she spoke, as she outlined a wishlist of actions. 'I daydream about a country where when a woman reports an image of her body, shared without her consent, it comes down there and then - not in 48 hours,' she continued.A More Human Response to Abuse'I daydream that when she reaches out drowning at two in the morning, what answers her is not an AI chatbot but a human voice that says 'I believe you and this is what happens next'. 'And one selfish daydream, that my phone finally goes quiet at two in the morning because the platforms finally start to answer for what they show and nobody out there needs me anymore.' Ms Nandy hugged Harrison at the end of her speech, before telling her: 'We're going to do it'. At the start of her own address to Labour members, the Cabinet minister added: 'Wow, just wow. Georgia you're an absolute inspiration.'I can't thank you enough for what you just got up and said today. I can't thank you enough for what you've been doing.'I can't thank you enough for that moment when you found the courage to go into court and speak your name and speak your truth. '
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