The House is heading to President Donald Trump’s desk after voting for 409-2 to approve the bill, after which social media companies will need to take down the flagging content as a sexual photo (including AI generated) sex. Trump has promised to sign it.
This bill is one of the only pieces of online safety legislation to pass both houses successfully over the years on deep fax, child safety and other issues – but it is the only thing that critics will be used as a weapon against the administration or its allies against dislike content. It guilty of publishing inappropriate intimacy images (NCII), whether it is real or computer, and requires social media platforms to have a system to remove these images within 48 hours of flag. In his address to the Congress this year, Trump said that once he signed it, “I will use this bill for myself, if you don’t mind, because no one behaves worse than my online, no one.”
The spread of AI tools, which makes realistic -looking images make it easier than ever, has raised concerns about spreading, harmful content in schools and developed a new vector of bullying and abuse. But although critics say this is an important issue to deal with it, they are concerned that the point of view of the Tech Eat Downs Act can be exploited to harm other ways.
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), which was created to tackle an image -based sexual abuse, said it could not please the passage of the Tech Downty Act. “Although we have long welcomed federal criminals of the NDI (non -proportional distribution of intimate images), we are sorry that it has been mixed with a Talk Town clause that is highly sensitive to misuse and potentially anti -victims.” It is feared that the bill, which gives strength to the Federal Trade Commission – whose Democratic Minority Commissioner Trump has fired decades from the Supreme Court’s view – will be selected in such a way that it will eventually present only the “dishonest platforms”.
“Platforms that feel confident that the FTC is unlikely to target them (for example, the platform that is closely linked to the current administration) may feel encouraged to just ignore NDI reports.” “Platforms trying to identify authentic complaints can face a sea of false information that can overwhelm their efforts and end their ability to operate.”
“The platform can respond by fully abandoning encryption”
Due to the immediate turning of the platform to remove the content according to the image of the non -proportional intimacy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned that especially the small platforms “must comply so quickly to avoid the legal risk that they will not be able to confirm the claims.” Instead, they will approach the probovly possibly faulty filters to break the copies, they write. The group has also warned that secret services, including private messaging systems and cloud storage, are not exempt from the bill from the end to the end, which poses a risk of privacy technology. Since encrypted services may not monitor the sending of their users to each other, the EFF asked, “How can this bill comply with the Tech Down Town requests? The platform can completely abandon the encryption and respond to the contents.”
Nevertheless, the Tech Eat Downtown Act gained a wide range of cooperation. First lady Melania Trump became an important champion of the bill, but it also shows the backing of some of the tech industry, along with parents and youth lawyers. Google’s World Affairs President Kent Walker described the phrase as “a big step to protect people from an proportional clear imagery”, and so the vote praised the vote. Internet works, a group whose members include medium -sized companies, such as Discard, Eti, Reddit, Roblox, and others, praised the House’s vote, Executive Director Peter Chandler says the bill will “remove the victims and remove the content of the NCI’s content from the Internet.”
Rap. Thomas Masi (RK), one of the two members (both Republicans) who voted against the bill, wrote on X that they could not support it because “I think it is a lubricant slope, squeezed for abuse, which has unannounced results.”
