Gaetz Fought “Revenge Porn” Bill While FL Lawmaker

The Orlando Sentinel reports:

While serving in the Florida Legislature, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz opposed a bill meant to stop people from sharing sexually explicit images of their ex-lovers because Gaetz believed that recipients of those images had a right to share them, according to the sponsor of the legislation.

Former state Rep. Tom Goodson, a Republican from Brevard County, spent three years sponsoring legislation to outlaw nonconsensual pornography — sometimes called “revenge porn.”

“Matt was absolutely against it. He thought the picture was his to do with what he wanted,” Goodson said. “He thought that any picture was his to use as he wanted to, as an expression of his rights.”

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NEW: Matt Gaetz was one of only two “no” votes in the FL House on a 2015 “revenge porn” law. But his opposition went beyond that, according to the bill’s Republican sponsor: “He thought that any picture was his to use as he wanted to.”

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