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Fury as NY revenge-porn bill dies

Google, which helped block a bill to criminalize revenge porn in New York state, has a history of promising to remove nonconsensual sexual images — and then failing to do so, multiple attorneys told The Post.

“For over two years, I’ve been fighting with them to remove content for a client who was raped during the creation of a pornography,” said Carrie Goldberg, who has represented hundreds of revenge-porn victims.

“We sent them affidavits and filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of several other women against the porn company. Yet to date, Google still has refused to remove that content.”

Goldberg called Google “unequivocally the No. 1 cause of damage to victims of revenge porn” because the search engine is where nude images and sex videos are found in the first place.

“It’s why victims report not getting jobs, apartments, dates,” Goldberg said. “Their names are typed into Google and naked images populate the first several pages.”

While Google does have a form that victims can fill out if they believe an image should be removed, Goldberg called the methods “in- effective and arbitrary.”

Women’s-rights attorney Lisa Bloom, who represented Black Chyna in her revenge-porn case against Rob Kardashian and is also the daughter of Gloria Allred, said nude images appearing in search results and across the Web is “devastating” for her clients.

Google insisted on Thursday it’s working to eliminate revenge porn.

“We agree that revenge-porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging. We take the issue seriously and have policies to address it across Google,” a company rep said.

Unlike similar bills passed in 40 other states, the bill that died in the state Senate on Tuesday included language to allow courts to petition Web sites to remove content.

“We had a version that both sides seemed to support,” Dorchen Leidholt, director of the Legal Center at Sanctuaries for Families, said of the bill.

“And then to have Google come in at the 11th hour and essentially destroy the bill and the compromise because it opposed judges preventing Internet providers from continuing to publish abusive, humiliating images of a victim makes no sense whatsoever and was extraordinarily destructive on Google’s part.”