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The measure of success of these provisions, if enacted, will lie not in the number of convictions brought, let alone jail time served, but in the number of women who do not become victims of deepfake sexual abuse in the first place, and in the more women and girls there are who are relieved of the fear that it may be happening to them and they do not yet know it, or that they can be threatened with it. As with the discussion of the strategic security issues to which I alluded in my earlier remarks, the key is not prosecution but deterrence. We know that, in any context, deterrence works only when it is rests on the possibility of an appropriately severe response where infractions are committed or where society is resilient to such behaviour—so deterrence by resilience.