Treat revenge porn in same way as child abuse content online, MPs told

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Revenge porn should be treated in the same way as child abuse and terrorist content online, an expert has told MPs. Mr Wright said: “We want the NCII content to be treated in the same way as other illegal content – so child abuse content, terrorist content, which then will enable a number of things, but not least Internet Service Providers to actually to block access, from a UK perspective, to this content. “And even in that regard, I think thinking about the victims whose content we’ve made every effort to take down but is still online, there’s some comfort knowing that well, it’s not viewable, or there’s limitations on how much it could be viewed.” He said ISPs have told his organisation that they cannot block access to such content currently because they “run the risk of censoring the internet to non-illegal content”. Sophie Mortimer, manager at the Revenge Porn Helpline, said this would “stop dead” if adult NCIIs were made illegal in the same way as child sex abuse material.