The Chamber of the Chamber approved on Monday the bipartisan legislation to criminalize the non -consensual exchange of sexual photo and videos of other images generated by AI as “deep” and to demand that the platforms eliminate them.
The vote of 409 to 2 cleared the measure for President Trump, who was expected to sign it quickly.
The legislation, known as the Take It Down Law, aims to take energetic measures against the exchange of materials known as “Porn of Revenge”, which requires that social networks and online platforms eliminate these images within two days after notification of the subject.
The measure, which brought together an unlikely coalition of conservatives and liberals in both parties, unanimously approved the Senate in February. The support of Mr. Trump, who mentioned his duration his joint speech to Congress last month, seems to have softened his path of Throgh Congress.
The legislation, presented by Senators TED Cruz, Republican of Texas, and Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, is the first internet content law that eliminates Congress since 2018, when legislators approved the legislation to combat online sexual trafficking. And he thought it focuses on the pornography of revenge and the deep, the bill is seen as an important step towards the regulation of the Internet companies that have escaped from the government’s scrutiny.
Mrs. Klobuchar said she called the bill to the attention of Mr. Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, while talking with them at a lunch of the inauguration.
The senator said she was moved by the stories of families whose children had experienced harassment, intimidation or mental and emotional damage due to thesis images.
The legislation, said Mrs. Klobuchar in an interview: “It was one of the first times that we have something real in the technological problems of the consumer that is significant.”
The acts of Tailad It Down Supports stand out about the growing anger among legislators to social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and X to accommodate misinformation and harmful content, images in part that hurt children and adolescents.
Although the pornography of revenge and deep defenders affect adults and minors equally, both have a particular bone for adolescents, since the propagation of broadly aviaxable “nudification” applications has stimulated children to the images of explicit images of explicit images of classmates of partner of ideomatomas.
Representative María Elvira Salazar, a Republican from Florida who presented an accompanying bill in the Chamber, said on Monday that the bill would stop the abuse and harassment of the young women who “extended as a forest fire” online.
“He is scandalously ill of using images: the face, voice, likeness, or a young and vulnerable woman, manipulating them, extorting them and humiliate them publicly just for fun, just for revenge,” said Salazar.
The approval of the bill is also echoing similar efforts in state houses throughout the country. Each state, except South Carolina, has a law that criminalizes the porn of revenge. And at least 20 states have laws that address sixthly explicit deep.
The measure that was approved on Monday is part of a one -year bipartisan effort of legislators to address Deepfake pornography. Mr. Cruz and Mrs. Klobuchar presented the bill last year, when he approved the Senate but died in the Chamber led by the Republicans. He was reintroduced this year and seemed to gain impulse after having presented the support of Mrs. Trump, who has focused on the problems of youth mental health, cyberbullying and the use of social networks.
The representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a millenary democrat from New York, also introduced legislation last year that would have allowed those represented in deep sexually explicit defenders to demand the people who created and shared them. That bill has not been reintroduced this year.
Legislators have recovered in recent years around several bills aimed at protecting children online from sexual exploitation, bullying and addictive algorithms. In January 2024, Meta executive directors, Tiktok and other technology firms testified before angry legislators, defending their platforms.
At the audience, Mark Zuckerberg, Executive Director of Meta, was forced to apologize to the parents who had lost their children of online damage.
Some discourse defenders have warned that the measure could cool free expression, saying that such law could force the elimination of legitimate images together with non -consensual sexual images.
“The best intentions cannot compensate for the dangerous implications of the bill for constitutional speech and online privacy,” said Becca Branum, deputy director of the free expression project for the center of democracy and technology, a research group.
Mrs. Branum added that the Take It Down law was “a recipe for the armed application that runs the risk of lasting progress in the fight against sexual abuse based on images.”
Two Republican representatives voted against the bill: representatives Eric Burlison of Missouri and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Mr. Massie said in a publication on social networks that he believed that legislation was a “slippery slope, mature for abuse, with unwanted consequences.”
