Lindsay Lieberman: Combating Online Sexual Abuse

Someone is told that if they leave, the photos go public. So they stay. Attorney Lindsay Lieberman calls that sextortion, and she points out it runs on the same mechanism as any other coercive control: the threat does the work, so the person making it never has to follow through. Lindsay Lieberman is a New York attorney who has spent over a decade representing people harmed by sexual violence and cyber sexual abuse, including image-based abuse, sextortion, and AI-generated content. She works ...