Earlier this month, the Senate passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), by a voice vote. The bill is meant to speed up the removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including videos that imitate real people, a technology sometimes called “deepfakes.” Protecting victims of these heinous...
  • venotic
    12•17 days ago

    Aside from the lack of protection against bad faith, I’m for the act.

    • ColforgeEnglish
      15•17 days ago

      Agreed. However, it also appears to apply too broadly:

      The letter explains that the bill’s “takedown” provision applies to a much broader category of content—potentially any images involving intimate or sexual content at all—than the narrower NCII definitions found elsewhere in the bill. The bill contains no protections against frivolous or bad-faith takedown requests. Lawful content—including satire, journalism, and political speech—could be wrongly censored.

    • @Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
      10•17 days ago

      Can’t forget how the rich get legal representation while the poors do not. There is no justice in this country until legal counsel is affordable and accessible to everyone.