S.E. Cupp Defends Ricky Gervais’ ‘Rational’ Reaction to Hacked Nude Pics

S.E. Cupp Defends Ricky Gervais’ ‘Rational’ Reaction to Hacked Nude Pics (Mediaite)

After hacked nude photos of celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton landed on the web over the weekend, comedian Ricky Gervais responded with this Twitter message: “Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on your computer.”

But while Gervais was later forced to backtrack, deleting his original tweet and clarifying that he was not blaming the “victims” in this case, CNN’s S.E. Cupp decided to defend his sentiments in an op-ed for the New York Daily News published Tuesday night.

“This elaborate blame game shifts responsibility from an obvious fact: It just isn’t wise to keep nude photos of yourself on the cloud if you don’t want them made public,” Cupp writes of the debate spawned by the massive photo leak. While she insists she’s not “excusing the hackers” or “trying to stifle the right of women to express themselves sexually,” Cupp says the simplest solution would be for celebrities to stop taking naked photos of themselves.