Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content

US President Donald Trump signed the law on Monday called Take Download, which requires unusual removal platforms from “intimate visual imaging” within 48 hours of receiving the request. Companies that take longer or not at all have to be subject to penalties of $ 50,000 per violation.

The law has received support from technology companies such as Google, Meta and Microsoft and will enter into force next year. Enforcement will be left to the Federal Trade Committee, which has the power to punish companies for what unstable and misleading commercial practices see. Other countries, including India, have similar regulations that require quick removal or deep -deep. The delay can lead to the spread of the content in an irreplaceable way through the web; Microsoft, for example, took months to work in one prominent condition.

But the advocates of freedom of expression are concerned that the lack of handrails in the Take Download law can allow bad actors to the policy weapon to force technology companies to monitor the online content in an unfair way. The new law is designed on the law of copyright for the digital millennium, which requires Internet service providers to remove the materials that a person claims the right to copyright. Companies can be financially responsible for ignoring the correct requests, which motivated many companies to make mistakes in addition to caution and remove the content in a proactive manner before resolving the copyright dispute.

For years, the fraudsters offended the DMCA removal for content monitoring for reasons unrelated to violating copyright. In some cases, the information is not exciting or belonging to the competitors of industry who want to harm. DMCA includes provisions that allow those who are financially responsible for the financial officials when they make false claims. Last year, for example, Google got a virtual ruling against two people accused of organizing a plan to suppress competitors in the shirts industry by submitting trivial requests to remove hundreds of thousands of search results.

Budgets who may have been afraid of the penalties for DMCA can find that it is dropping a less dangerous path. Take It Download does not include a strong ruling for deterrence, which only requires that they practice the “good -intentioned” removal, without specifying penalties for disposing of bad faith. Unlike DMCA, the new law also does not determine the alleged gay process to challenge what they consider wrong removal. Critics of the list says that it should have been exempting a specific content, including materials that could be considered as the public’s interest to stay online.

Another source of concern is that the 48 -hour deadline set in the Take It Download Law may limit the amount of what companies can examine before deciding to approve it. Freedom of expression groups that can lead to content -erasing the content claim beyond “visually intimate photography”, and calling for ill -treatment of the same type of fraudsters who have benefited from DMCA.