Deepfakes have become a major issue in public culture, and the crisis of consent in the digital media environment has become an infrastructure issue. Digital consent is being determined by how platforms and regulations either enable or block certain content flows, rather than by an individual agreement. This paper examines the emerging wave of nonconsensual deepfake abuse in Asia, where most visible and socially damaging digital sex crimes disproportionately target women and girls. This epidemic might be virtual in nature but affects society in all spheres. The paper argues that to understand this digital violation crisis, particularly in an Asian context where consent collapses under existing platform designs and legal inertia, there is a need for structural reform in digital, legal, and infrastructural capacity. Drawing on information from news stories, government reports, legal policies, etc. this study tries to observe these acts and the reasons behind them. Thus, this paper recommends a multi-pronged structural reform targeting the legal and digital infrastructure in an effort to ensure that individual consent is enshrined as a core concept within them.
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