![]() The gap between paper and reality is vast.” Julio César Bonilla Gutiérrez, Citizen Commissioner of Mexico City’s Transparency Institute, acknowledges that “there is still a long way to go. “It sounds all good and well on paper, but getting these videos downloaded from the internet is very unlikely. but the materialization of the sentence is the most difficult thing,” Elvia Karina Ramirez Juarez, a Mexican litigation lawyer, tells EL PAÍS. However, despite Mexico’s pioneering legislation, the crime itself remains difficult to nail. Mexico has been one of the countries most concerned with violence against women online and has a large package of federal and state reforms to prosecute these practices, known as the “Olimpia Law,” in a tribute to Olimpia Coral Melo, victim in 2014 of the unauthorized sharing of a video with sexual content. Brazil has criminalized the non-consensual distribution of intimate images since 2018 and Peru also incorporated online sexual harassment and blackmail into its Penal Code. The production or distribution of sexual images without consent is not a crime, although in exceptional cases may be prosecuted as other criminal offenses such as extortion or hate crimes.Īrgentina and Chile, on the other hand, have set up a more protective legal framework for children and adolescents, though there is a huge gap when it comes to adult women’s rights. Along with Nicaragua and Venezuela, online gender-based violence is not covered by any legal framework in Colombia. So, it’s a good first step.”Ĭolombia, however, is close to the bottom of the heap when it comes to protective legislation. “Criminal law can intervene up to a point and make people understand that it is a crime. For María Camila Correa Flórez, professor of Criminal Law at the Rosario University in Bogotá, it is only one aspect of it: “Comprehensive public policies are needed to prevent, as well as to sanction,” she says. Generative artificial intelligence has reopened the discussion on whether criminalizing the abusive use of intimate images is the solution. The perverse use of social networks and virtuality opened more than a decade ago the debate on whether or not to criminalize these behaviors that mainly affect women in countries such as Mexico, they account for 89% of the victims. It is precisely the ease of generating content without consent and sharing it that worries experts in the Latin American region where, in some countries, digital gender-based violence is hardly considered a crime and where commitment to its prevention is flaky to say the least. “This is the crème de la crème because of how easy and powerful it is,” says another. ![]() “It’ll be a piece of cake to add someone to a porn scene,” says the website of one of the most popular apps, with 1.5 million monthly visits. These are the only requirements for the 96 apps already in existence to receive “compelling nudity” on tap for a year. All it takes is a photo, an email and between $10 and $50. Nowadays, anyone can create a hyperrealistic porn video with artificial intelligence (AI). ![]()
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