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The amendment would also ensure that anyone who appears in pornographic content has given their consent for the content to be uploaded online. It is horrific to learn that it is all too common for videos of sexual violence and sexual assault to be uploaded on to pornography sites and sold as entertainment. There are many stories, but one story of a woman called Rose Kalemba really struck me and shows the urgent need for this amendment. Rose was just 14 when she was raped by two men at knifepoint, and she later found videos of that attack on Pornhub. Those videos had been viewed over 400,000 times, with grotesque and horrific titles. She repeatedly asked that website to take those videos down, but it refused. Instead, not only that site but others were making money off the horrific abuse that Rose suffered. There are many other cases; I point just to that one, but it reinforces why these amendments are so important.