TAKE IT DOWN Act Passes the House, Heads to President Trump's Desk

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The TAKE IT DOWN Act would protect and empower victims of real and deepfake NCII while respecting speech by:
58% : Having passed the Senate in February, the TAKE IT DOWN Act now heads to the President to be signed into law.
56% : The TAKE IT DOWN Act criminalizes the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated NCII (or "deepfake revenge pornography"), and requires social media and similar websites to remove such content within 48 hours of notice from a victim.
54% : During his State of the Union address, President Trump emphasized the bill's importance and said, "I look forward to signing it into law.
53% : Upon passage of the TAKE IT DOWN Act, Sen. Cruz said: "The passage of the TAKE IT DOWN Act is a historic win in the fight to protect victims of revenge porn and deepfake abuse.
52% : " Ms. Elliston Berry, high school student and advocate for fellow victims of deepfake pornography, said: "When I was just 14 years old, my life changed forever after a boy at my school used AI to create deepfake images of me.
50% : Background: While nearly every state has a law protecting people from non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including 30 states with laws explicitly covering sexual deepfakes, these state laws vary in classification of crime and penalty and have uneven criminal prosecution.
47% : With the passage of the TAKE IT DOWN Act, we can protect future generations from having to experience the pain I went through.
46% : In March, Sen. Cruz and Rep. Salazar hosted a bipartisan roundtable with First Lady Melania Trump to hear from victims of revenge and deepfake pornography and urge the House to pass the bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act.
31% : Bipartisan, bicameral bill empowers victims of revenge porn by forcing social media to remove explicit images WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bipartisan, bicameral TAKE IT DOWN Act, authored by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and co-led by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), by a vote of 409-2.

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