Don't have an account yet? Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. Holly Jacobs' nightmare began in They soon went viral, appearing on hundreds of so-called revenge porn sites along with her name, phone number, and email address.
'Revenge porn' victim devotes life fighting to change nation's laws
Miami Student Holly Jacobs Fights Revenge Porn | Miami New Times
Don't have an account yet? Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more. Ryan Seay's life was turned upside down by a phone call. It was late October of last year, and the sound engineer was celebrating his 28th birthday in Sarasota. Exhausted after a day at the Ringling Museum of Art, Seay and his girlfriend fell asleep on their lumpy hotel room mattress. Then the plastic phone started shrieking. Still groggy from his nap, Seay said not to worry about it.
Holly Jacobs, 30, is fighting to change the nation's laws after private nude images of herself were posted on so-called "revenge porn" websites, allegedly by her ex-boyfriend, without her consent or knowledge. When Holly Jacobs sent nude photographs of herself to a long-distance boyfriend she loved and trusted, the year-old woman never imagined the horror that would befall her. In August , less than a year after the pair mutually ended their three-year relationship, Jacobs did a Google search of her name and discovered the naked photos on a so-called "revenge porn" website. It violates you over and over again. What came next was perhaps more shocking to Jacobs.
When the pictures and video were leaked online, rather than ignoring them and waiting for them to get lost in the tidal wave of filth posted on websites every day, she contacted a lawyer in an attempt to have them erased from the internet. Her plan might have worked if not for the fact that she founded and appointed herself President of End Revenge Porn. This either makes her a complete attention whore who probably leaked her own masturbation tape just so she could get famous, or the most stupid PhD graduate in the entire world. Holli Thometz and Ryan Seay dated on and off since high school, but parted ways for good on amicable terms in late