{"id":102401,"date":"2016-08-29T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102401"},"modified":"2016-08-29T09:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:32:57","slug":"legality-of-revenge-porn-hits-south-african-courts-after-margaret-van-wyk-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/102401-legality-of-revenge-porn-hits-south-african-courts-after-margaret-van-wyk-scandal","title":{"rendered":"Legality of “Revenge Porn” hits South African courts after Margaret van Wyk scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Film and Publications Board plan to tackle the issue of “Revenge Porn” head on, reports htxt.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Revenge porn refers to\u00a0the act of publishing nude pictures of people online without their permission, and has become\u00a0a\u00a0growing\u00a0problem with the prevalence of modern smartphones.<\/p>\n

The board plans to criminalise the unauthorised publication of nude images through the proposed Film and Publications Amendment Bill.<\/p>\n

The amendments being introduced by the bill come with the added pressure of the major scandal surrounding Margaret van Wyk this past week.<\/p>\n

Margaret van Wyk has been trending on Facebook and Twitter, following the posting of an alleged image of her genitals online.<\/p>\n

This image was circulated without her permission.<\/p>\n

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Here’s why the FPB hopes to have “Revenge Porn” made illegal in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":102403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[1896,3685,21505,2163],"class_list":["post-102401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-court","tag-legal","tag-revenge-porn","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102405,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102401\/revisions\/102405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}