Take Down Act is a bipartisan bill recently praised by Melania Trump for tools to build a safer internet, a formal law as President Donald Trump brought in to White House Rose Garden today to put ink on a legislative paper. This is the first highly anticipated technological legislation passed under the new government.
“With the rise of artificial intelligence imagery, countless women were harassed by deep slashes and other explicit images,” Trump said during the signing. “This will be the first federal law ever to have a clear, fictional and posted distribution without the subject’s consent…we’ve all heard of Deep Smoke. I’ve always had them, but no one did anything. I asked PAM [Bondi]”Can you help me Pam?” she said, “No, I’m too busy doing other things. Don’t worry, you’ll survive. But a lot of people can’t survive, it’s true, so terrible… Today, we make it totally illegal.”
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The bill criminalized involuntary intimate images that were published or threatened to publish, including deep cakes and pornography produced by AI, and successfully passed the House in April. It requires social media platforms to remove problematic content within 48 hours, prevent users from posting duplicates, and allow the Federal Trade Commission to sue unqualified platforms. According to CNN, the law also adds protections for victims and articulates guidelines for prosecution against police.
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Previous victims of involuntary intimate images have little legal recourse to perpetrators, and lawmakers are slow to agree on how to address revenge porn extensively, even if it increasingly exacerbates technologies like AI – previous attempts (previous attempts to create criminal or civil avenues for victims), such as Breach of Contract, have failed.
Digital rights groups are very critical of the new legislation, warning legislators that the bill’s wide distribution provisions and tight schedules could lead online service providers to more aggressively monitor users’ speech and fuel censorship of legal content.
