Privacy and Digital Rights supporters are raising alarms on a law that many people will expect to be happy with: a federal crackdown on revenge pornography and AI-generated Deep Fax.
Newly signed Take it down The publishing of non-controversial clear images-reality or AI-generated makes it illegal and gives only 48 hours platform to face an affected tech application or responsibility. Although the long -term win for the victims has been widely praised, experts can pave the way for its ambiguous language, claim verification of claims, and strict compliance window, censorship of legitimate content, and even monitoring.
India McCain, director of Federal Affairs of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights organization, told Tech Crunch, “Moderately troubles in the scale content, and it is always ended with important and necessary speech,” the Digital Rights, the Digital Rights, the Digital Organization.
Online platforms have a year to establish a process to remove non -proportional intimate imagination (NCII). Although the law requires requests to be taken by victims or their representatives, it only asks for physical or electronic signatures – no photo identification or other form of verification is required. Its purpose is to reduce the obstacles for the victims, but it can create an opportunity for abuse.
McCain said, “I really want to be wrong about this, but I think there will be more requests to take down the pictures showing quirky and trans people in the relationships, and even more, I think it’s going to be pornographic by consensus.”
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who is co-sponsor of the Tech Eight Downty Act, also patronized it Children’s Online Safety Act Which places ounces on the platform to protect children from harmful materials from harmful materials. Blackburn says she believes Materials related to transgender people Damage to children. Similarly, the Heritage Foundation – Conservative Think Tank behind Project 2025 – is also Said “Keeping the trans contests away from children is protecting children.”
“If they do not take any picture within 48 hours of receiving the request, then because of this responsibility,” the default is that they will take it down without knowing whether it is in fact the NCII or if it is another kind of safe speech, or it is also related to the person who is applying. “
Snapchat and Meta have said that they are supportive of the law, but not for further information about the Tech Crunch, they responded to more information about whether they would confirm whether the person requesting the tech down was the victim or not.
Mustoden, a विकेंद्रीकृत platform that hosted his flagship server that could be included in others, told the Tech Crunch that if the victim is very difficult to confirm, he will bend to remove.
Mastoaden and other विकेंद्रीकृत platforms such as Bluesky or Pixelfed may be particularly prone to the cold effect of the 48 -hour tech -down town principle. These networks rely on freely operated servers, often run by non -profit or individuals. Under the law, the FTC can treat any platform that does not “reasonably comply” with the demands that have been abolished as “unfair or fraudulent process or action” – even if the host is not a commercial institution.
“It’s annoying to her face, but it’s especially at a moment when the FTC chair is taken Unique Measures Do politics Agency and clearly promised that the power of the agency will use the platform and services to punish one TheoreticalAs the principle, contrary to the foundation, “cyber -civil rights initiatives, which are dedicated to eliminating an unconstitutional vengeance pornography, said in one. Description.
Active supervision
McCain has predicted that the platform will start moderate content before its outbreak, so in the future they have less hassle posts.
The platforms are already using AI to monitor harmful materials.
Kevin Go, CEO and co -founder of the AI inadays The beginning of the material detection.He said his company works with an online platform to detect deep faxes and children’s sexual abuse content (CSAM). Some of Hive users include Reddate, Gifi, Vivo, Bluesky and Barrels.
“We were actually one of the tech companies who endorsed the bill,” said Tech Crunch. “This will help solve some important issues and will be forced to adopt the solution more actively.”
The HIVE model is a service as a software, so startup does not control how the platforms use the content to flag or remove it. But Go said many clients enter the HIVE API at the upload site for monitoring before sending anything to the community.
The Reddate spokesman told Tech Crunch that the platform uses NCII to address and remove “sophisticated internal tools, processes and teams.” Reddet is also a partner with the non -profit SWGFL to deploy its stop NCII tool, which scans directly for matches against the known NCII database and removes the right matches. The company did not share how it would ensure that it was a victim of hunting.
McCain warns that such surveillance can spread to the encrypted messages in the future. Although the law is focused on public or semi -public proliferation, it also requires platforms to remove and do reasonable efforts to prevent re -uploads of non -proportional intimate images. It argues that even in secret places, it can encourage active scanning of all materials. This law does not contain any carve out for encrypted messaging services from the end to the end of the WhatsApp, signal, or IMessage.
Meta, Signal, and Apple have not responded to the request for more TECH T -Tech Crunch’s request for further information about their plans for encrypted messaging.
The implications of a wider free speech
On March 4, Trump made a joint address to the Congress in which he praised the Tech Attack Act, saying he was waiting for it to sign it in the law.
“And I will use this bill for myself, if you don’t mind,” he added. “There is no one who behaves worse than my online.”
Although the audience laughed at this comment, not everyone took it as a joke. Trump is not ashamed to suppress or retaliate against an unpleasant speech, whether he is labeling the mainstream media outlets.Enemies of people“” Except the Associated Press In spite of a court order from the Oval Office, or Pulling the fund From NPR and PBS.
Thursday, Trump administration Bard Harvard University From accepting the entry of foreign students, Harvard refused to comply with Trump’s demands, promoted the dispute to change its curriculum and eliminate DI -related content, other than other things. In retaliation, Trump has frozen Harvard’s federal funds and threatens to revoke the university’s tax exemption.
“At a time when we are already trying to ban school board books and we are seeing that some politicians are very clearly seeing very clearly about the types of content they don’t want to see people ever see, whether it be the main theory of the race or the change of information about our climate information about this or our information about this. Can see the moderation of contents. “