Overrated

(from the “Dodge a Bullet” episode of Mythbusters)

*wind rustles*

*bullet fires, replays, funky music starts jammin*

Jamie: “I…dodged it!”

Adam: “ᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᴼᴼᴼᴼOOOOOᴼᴼᴼᴼᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ”

If your nude photos are posted online without your permission, Microsoft and Google want to know.

For years, most victims of revenge porn — people who have had their nude photos shared online without permission — basically couldn’t do anything about it.

According to one study, over 50% of all adults engage in sexting, and 70% admit to having received a nude photo online or over the phone.

And yet, despite the fact that we all (or at least more than half of us) do it, there’s still this weird, persistent, harmful notion that if your naked pictures get leaked or shared maliciously by an ex online, it’s your fault for taking them in the first place.

It’s completely backward, but sadly, the law seems to at least kind of agree.

As of September 2014, New Republic found, putting someone else’s illicit photos online without their consent was illegal in just 16 states, though laws have been proposed in more states. Not only is it typically impossible to prosecute the perpetrator, they note, it’s impossible to legally compel websites to take the images taken down most of the time.