Take It Down Act heads to Trump’s desk

Take It Download is heading to President Donald Trump’s office after the House of Representatives voted at 409-2 to pass the bill, which will require social media companies to download the content that was marked as uniform sexual images (including artificial intelligence). Trump pledged to sign it.

The draft law is among the only parts of online safety legislation that succeeded in successfully passing both rooms in years of anger on deep and interested in children and other issues – but those who fear critics will be used as a weapon against content or not like their allies. It criminalizes the publication of unusual intimate images (NCII), whether real or created on the computer, and requires that social media platforms have a system to remove those images within 48 hours of marking. In his speech to congress this year, Trump mocked that once he was registered, “I will use this law for myself as well, if you do not mind, because no one is treated worse than me online, no one.”

The spread of artificial intelligence tools that make it easier than ever generating images with realistic appearance high -charging about the devastating content, which is published in schools and creating a new vector of bullying and ill -treatment. But while critics say this is an important issue to deal with it, they are concerned that the approach of a law that it takes can be used to harm in other ways.

The CIA Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), which was created to combat sexual assault, said it could not chant the phrase ACT. While we welcome the long federal criminalization of NDII [the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images]We regret that it is close to the ruling that greatly exposes the abuse of use, and we are likely to be inverse to the victims.

“The platforms that feel confident that it is unlikely to target FTC (for example, the platforms that are closely compatible with the current administration may feel the renewal of NDII reports simply,” they write. “The platforms that try to identify the original complaints may face a sea of ​​wrong reports that can overwhelm their efforts and expose their ability to work at all.”

Due to the rapid shift of platforms to remove the content that has been marked as an intimate intimate images, Fricar Foundation (EFF) warns of the smaller platforms in particular “to comply so quickly to avoid legal risks so that they will not be able to check the claims.” Instead, they are likely to resort to defective liquidation factors to suppress the repetitions, they write. The group also warns that encrypted services from end to end, including private correspondence systems and cloud storage are not exempted from the bill, which poses a threat to privacy technique. Since encrypted services cannot monitor what their users send to each other, EFF asks, “How can these services comply with the removal requests that have been assigned in this law? Platforms may respond by abandoning the entire encryption so that you can monitor content – convert private conversations into expected spaces”, including the survivors who generally take them.

However, the Act The Take Download got a wide support. First Lady Melania Trump has become a leading champion of the bill, but it is also seen as supporting parents and youth, as well as some in the technology industry. Google Kent Walker, the chief of global affairs, described the clip as a “big step towards protecting individuals from unusual explicit images”, coinciding with the same vote. The Internet, a group whose members include medium -sized companies such as Discord, ETSY, Reddit, Roblox and others, praised the vote of the House of Representatives, with CEO Peter Chandler says that the draft law “will enable victims to remove NCII materials from the Internet and end the abuse cycle by those who publish this huge content.”
MP Thomas Massi, one of the two members (both of whom are Republicans) who voted against the draft law, wrote that X cannot support it because “I feel that this is a slippery slope, mature of abuse, with unintended consequences.”