A new law was proposed to crack down on abusive online imagesThe UK government this week revealed a new law that would require tech companies to remove intimate images that have been shared without consent, within 48 hours. Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister, told BBC Breakfast on Thursday that this law would mean a survivor “doesn’t have to do a sort of whack-a-mole chasing wherever this image is next going up”. The law would be enforced by fines and other as-yet-undetermined measures. Janaya Walker, interim director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, told Positive News that the proposed law “sends a powerful message that women and girls’ rights and freedoms matter, and should not be threatened by image-based abuse. “This announcement rightly places the responsibility on tech companies to act, because it is they who can stop images from spreading, and that have profited from hosting this harm.