First lady Melania Trump made a rare solo visit to Capitol Hill on March 3, the day before her husband’s joint address to Congress, to advocate for the passage of the Take It Down Act, which would require companies that feature user-generated content to have a “notice and takedown process” for deepfake revenge porn.
In the famous dinner scene of the hit movie “Saint Elmo’s Fire,” the mother will barely say out loud the word “cancer” or “drugs.” “There are certain words that my mother finds too horrible to utter, so she whispers them,” Wendy Beamish, played by Mare Winningham, explains to her friend Billy Hicks, played by Rob Lowe.
While revenge porn might not be words teachers, parents, and daytime newscasters like to speak out loud, the growing problem is one that the first lady, along with online safety advocates, members of Congress, survivors of nonconsensual intimate imagery, and others feel should not be whispered about but brought to the forefront so everyone can speak up boldly about this serious issue.
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