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Free speech advocates losing legal challenges against revenge porn Follow Us Question of the Day Free speech advocates are striking out in their legal challenges to revenge porn laws. The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously upheld a law that bars displaying intimate images or video of another person, either nude or engaged in sexual acts, without the subject’s consent. A lower court had thrown out the state’s non-consensual porn law, saying the statute banned constitutionally protected if unsavory content. TOP STORIES Free speech advocates don’t defend Michael Casillas, who had tapped into his ex-girlfriend’s Dish Network account to access intimate photos with her and another man that he then posted to the internet. ....
The Minnesota Supreme Court Chamber, located inside the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. (Photo via Jonathunder/Wikipedia Commons) ST. PAUL, Minn. (CN) Minnesota’s highest court unanimously upheld the state’s nonconsensual-porn statute Wednesday, bringing holiday cheer to privacy advocates and a year-end letdown to free-speech groups. The court found that the statute, which has been embroiled in litigation since its passage in 2016, criminalizes constitutionally protected speech but is focused tightly enough on preventing the nonconsensual dissemination of explicit images to stand up to strict scrutiny. “The constitutional right to free speech stands as a bedrock for our democracy,” Justice Natalie Hudson wrote in the 26-page opinion. “To protect this fundamental promise, we evaluate any encroachment on free speech with both caution and skepticism.” ....