I recently wrote a blogpost about the media helping spreading revenge porn. In that post I mentioned how the German TV channel RTL had spread revenge porn of Danish feminist Emma Holten in a program about her.
As I mentioned in the blogpost, Emma Holten was taking steps towards legal action against RTL, and now there are more news on the matter.
The magazine of the Danish journalist union brings the news that RTL has settled with Emma Holten (article in Danish). The settlement involves RTL apologizing, acknowledging that they had violated Emma Holten, and giving a sizable compensation.
According to the article, and to Emma Holten’s comments on facebook and instagram (both links in Danish), this is a very satisfactory result, since it saves the trouble of a court case in Germany, and it sends a clear signal that media can’t violate the privacy of people just because somebody already had done so.
Congratulations to Emma Holten on a good result – hopefully she never has to fight this fight ever again.
Hmm, German coverage says she’s still planning to sue them, with good chances of success.
Gah, RTL… That trash TV generator is a national shame, really. Radio Luxemburg shouldn’t have opened that subsidiary.
Hopefully the compensation is a higher sum than could’ve been obtained in a court case and will hit them enough in the wallet to never attempt something like this ever again.