1. United States
2. Letter

Age verification laws failed to protect a lawmaker in Kentucky from having their personal photos distributed on rogue pirate sites overseas. They're one of many individuals that have increasingly been victimized by non-consensual image sharing and the worst part is that age verification laws on the books did not do anything to prevent this from happening. Think of how many children and adults have been exploited by bad actors while the legislatures in various states have passed and enacted privacy-invading, data-mining insecure AV laws that block access to legal speech and expression because it contains adult content. Failing to learn from this hard lesson, the lawmaker is proposing to expand the law's language to apply to any sites that have images of any kind. All these laws have done is push traffic to far less secure and far less regulated rogue pirate sites overseas, which causes them to grow, which gives them incentive to exploit more people. Meanwhile pornography and fictional content are being made scapegoats to help push these bills and laws onto the law-abiding public, punishing the sites that regulate themselves and forcing them to censor themselves outright for fear of being arrested and prosecuted. And they still will fail to punish the true culprits, just like how SESTA and FOSTA failed to stop trafficking. Forcing lawmakers to apply strict scrutiny to their laws would fix this issue.