This is a move almost solely used to prevent further crimes of this nature.
Well its because nobody still takes revenge porn seriously, no matter how much they whine about it how its super evil. Almost like treating something as simple as Sending a fucking image as on par with rape immediately sets off people's "this ain't right" sensor and they don't process it.
Which means dumb teenagers and uncaring black dudes will continue to commit this super duper srs crime every day.
It doesn´t prevent anything being asked for money that nobody has, if they had fined him €50.000 it would have been enough deterrent.
Well its because nobody still takes revenge porn seriously, no matter how much they whine about it how its super evil. Almost like treating something as simple as Sending a fucking image as on par with rape immediately sets off people's "this ain't right" sensor and they don't process it.
Which means dumb teenagers and uncaring black dudes will continue to commit this super duper srs crime every day.
A million dollars would have been equally cost-prohibitive. This is getting into "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" territory.
"We expect the punishment not to be carried out"
Then this is an admission that it is inherently an unreasonable punishment and the judge should be removed for constitutional violations.