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 that both houses have successfully pass through deep faxes, children’s safety and other matters – but the only thing is that critics fear the administration or its allies will be used as a weapon 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 Once he signed it, he said“I’m going to 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 that makes it easier to produce realistic views. Is spreading in schools And create 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 the elimination clause, which is highly sensitive to misuse and will potentially be anti -productive.” 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”
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to remove materials according to the image format of non -controversial intimacy due to rapid changes for the platform Alerts that specially small platforms “To avoid legal risk, you have to comply so quickly 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. Kent Walker, President of Global Global Affairs The passage is called “A big step toward protecting people from unpublished clearly visible,” and snap Similarly 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, is written on x That he cannot support it because “I think it’s a sloping slope, which is squeezed for abuse, with unannounced results.”
