I’m no legal expert, but isn’t posting porn of someone without their consent already covered somewhere in United States Code? Porn sites did quite the purge a few years ago. So I’m wondering what this solves, even if it were worded better.
Seems to just make it so it has to be taken down significantly quicker - within 48 hours - meaning there’s virtually no time to check that the takedown request is legitimate before taking the content down.
Ripe for abuse.
Cool, now I can report all that religious shit that appears.
Aside from the lack of protection against bad faith, I’m for the act.
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.
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.
What is the implication for Lemmy and other federated platforms? Is running a Lemmy instance going to now come with a huge legal risk and moderation requirements that three people with day jobs can’t handle?
I mean, it already does……
I’d imagine this will speed up defederation in some cases, but I’ve not run into any such material here.
I wouldn’t think it wouldn’t be any more of a legal requirement than making sure you keep CSAM off your servers as with current laws, just now with deep fakes too.
The change this would make is that you only have 48 hours to take the content down, meaning you basically have to take it down even if it’s a bogus request due to time restraints.
It’s somewhat more comparable to DMCA takedowns I think.
I guess it’s still gotta go through congress? Call your rep. Adding it to my list of shit to call about.
