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Take It Down Act heads to Trump’s desk / Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech and encryption.
Trump has pledged to sign it.
The Take It Down Act is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk after the House voted 409-2 to pass the bill, which will require social media companies to take down content flagged as nonconsensual (including AI-generated) sexual images. The proliferation of AI tools that make it easier than ever to generate realistic-looking images has supercharged concerns about deepfaked, damaging content spreading through schools and creating a new vector of bullying and abuse. It fears that the bill, which empowers the Federal Trade Commission — whose Democratic minority commissioners Trump fired in a break with decades of Supreme Court precedent — will be selectively enforced in a way that ultimately only props up “unscrupulous platforms.”
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