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Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned
During his address to Congress this week, Donald Trump endorsed the Take It Down Act while openly declaring his plans to abuse it: “And I’m going to use that bill for myself too, if you…
The bill aims to address a legitimate problem — non-consensual intimate imagery — but does so with a censorship mechanism so obviously prone to abuse that the president couldn’t even wait until it passed to announce his plans to misuse it. But Congress (specifically Senators Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar) looked at all this work and said “nah, let’s just make websites legally liable if they don’t take down anything someone claims is NCII within 48 hours.” It’s the “nerd harder or we fine you” approach to tech regulations. This isn’t speculation or paranoia about potential misuse — it’s an explicit promise, made in front of both houses of Congress, as well as multiple Supreme Court Justices, of his intent to weaponize the law against protected speech.
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