https://apnews.com/article/trump-melania-intimate-imagery-bill-sign-c7416b4935f8ccac9fd2909e494da9f1
President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law the Take It Down Act, a measure that imposes penalties for online sexual exploitation that first lady Melania Trump helped usher through Congress, and he had her sign it, too, despite what sounded like a mild objection on her part.

“C’mon, sign it anyway,” the president told his wife. “She deserves to sign it,” he said.

After she added her signature, the president held up the document to show both of their names to the audience at the ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. Melania Trump’s signature is merely symbolic since first ladies are not elected and they play no role in the enactment of legislation.

In March, Melania Trump used her first public appearance since resuming the role of first lady to travel to Capitol Hill to lobby House members to pass the bill following its approval by the Senate.

At a signing ceremony, she called the new law a “national victory” that will help protect children from online exploitation, including through the use of artificial intelligence to make fake images.

“AI and social media are the digital candy for the next generation, sweet addictive and engineered to have an impact on the cognitive development of our children,” she said. “But unlike sugar, these new technologies can be weaponized, shape beliefs and, sadly, affect emotions and even be deadly.”

The president said the proliferation of images made using AI means that “countless women have been harassed with deepfakes and other explicit images distributed against their will.” He said what’s happening is “just so horribly wrong.”

“Today, we’re making it totally illegal,” Trump said.

The bill makes it a federal crime to “knowingly publish” or threaten to publish intimate images without a person’s consent, including AI-created “deepfakes.” Websites and social media companies will be required to remove such material within 48 hours after a victim requests it. The platforms must also take steps to delete duplicate content.

Many states have already banned the dissemination of sexually explicit deepfakes or revenge porn, but the Take It Down Act is a rare example of federal regulators imposing on internet companies.

The bill, introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., received overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress, passing the House in April by a 409-2 vote and clearing the Senate by unanimous consent.

But the measure isn’t without critics. Free speech advocates and digital rights groups say the bill is too broad and could lead to censorship of legitimate images, including legal pornography and LGBTQ content. Others say it could allow the government to monitor private communications and undermine due process.

The first lady appeared at a Capitol Hill roundtable with lawmakers and young women who had explicit images of them put online, saying it was “heartbreaking” to see what teenagers and especially girls go through after this happens to them. She also included a victim among her guests for the president’s address to a joint session of Congress the day after that meeting.

After the House passed the bill, Melania Trump said the bipartisan vote was a “powerful statement that we stand united in protecting the dignity, privacy and safety of our children.”

Her advocacy for the bill represents a continuation of the Be Best campaign she started in the president’s first term, focusing on children’s well-being, social media use and opioid abuse.

In his speech to Congress in March, the president said he looked forward to signing the bill.

“And I’m going to use that bill for myself, too, if you don’t mind,” he said, adding, that there’s nobody who “gets treated worse than I do online. Nobody.”

>he's so ass blasted by >>1407082 he literally imploded and had to make his own thread
lol. lmao even

>>1407100
This post is automatically better because they posted the article.
You're a salty faggot who just shitposts to stop conversations

>>1407095 (OP)
/gif/ and /hr/ are probably already shitting their pants over this, but I don't care enough to go there and find out.
>>1407100
different bill kneejerking retard

>>1407096
>The bill makes it a federal crime to “knowingly publish” or threaten to publish intimate images without a person’s consent, including AI-created “deepfakes.”
So just threatening to publish something is a crime now. Seems like a first amendment violation.

>>1407100
No I didn't see your thread but thanks for bringing it to my attention Trump also wants to replace peoples jobs with AI.

>>1407105
He's too stupid to get that this is a different bill and that it bans all the AI things he thinks democrats are trying to ban.

Flooding the zone with shit again, op? Really?

>>1407106
he really is a fucking retard isn't he everyone make sure to laugh in his face ok

>>1407110
shitty bait

>>1407112
the local schizo doesn't understand that everyone knows their shitty threads on sight

>>1407113
Someone else called one of his threads that >>1406810

>>1407113
he's still blaming democrats for this in his thread

>President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law the Take It Down Act, a measure that imposes penalties for online sexual exploitation
>"Trump bans free speech"
Of course Democrats would think that any bill increasing penalties for sexually exploiting someone online is just like banning free speech

If there's one thing democrats feel stronger about than hating facts, it's loving to groom children online

>>1407149
That's not the part of the law that's the problem; if anything that's why enough dems voted for it to go through. The main issues is the monitoring requirements it places on social media and how that can exploited.

>>1407151
>Will someone PLEASE think of the criminals!??
nope.

>>1407110
tRump's bought whore dont need no fake ai generated nude image made of her. That slut got plenty out there

https://imgur.com/a/w8NB7be

>>1407155
No retard, think of how this can be abused to force the removal of ANY picture of someone they don't want spreading from the internet on the grounds it is a "harmful deepfake" even if it's 100% real. Trump shits his pants on camera? Deleted. CEO pictured laughing at starving children? Deleted. High ranking republican gets caught sucking dick? Deleted.

Not to mention the actual rules of this are retarded; websites have 48 hours to prove something isn't a deepfake every time it gets reported. Manually. It's a genuine question if this shit is even enforceable in a regular context, or if it'll just be used by politicians to force takedowns of any real pictures of them that harm their image.

>>1407155
lol >>>/g/105316600

>>1407103
No retard. It specifically prevents AI generated sexual content of a person from being posted as blackmail or without the person's consent. Nothing about that is within your right to free speech

>>1407171
>even if it's 100% real.
I'm sure you're very concerned about the trillion dollar corporations being bullied. How many billions did oldTwitter and Facebook and Alphabet spend fighting "disinformation" over the past eight years? I think they will be okay hiring a few extra people to properly monitor their sites.

>>1407179
And the non-trillion dollar sites? You know twitter and facebook aren't the only places where images are published, and even in those cases giving politicians more ability to censor images that harm their image is retarded.

You're either delusional or naive as hell to think this will only be applied in legitimate cases.

>>1407178
I think you replied to the wrong person again.

>>1407178
>It specifically prevents AI generated sexual content of a person from being posted as blackmail or without the person's consent

>>1407170
>tRump's bought whore dont need no fake ai generated nude image made of her

i have ai generated nude images of the Donald, but i dont post them, only fap to them

Kiwifarms is fucked.

>>1407095 (OP)
There is NO party that will protect our rights. Both the republicans and democrats will censor, cancel, and push PC when either side gets power.

>>1407194
Except that's fucking wrong, and no one is saying that except for right wingers.

>>1407103
>So just threatening to publish something is a crime now. Seems like a first amendment violation.
Can I threaten to shoot you?

>>1407202
It depends on the context.

>>1407206
As '...in Minecraft' no longer works, threats are now thoughtcrime.

>>1407206
So you'd say 1A isn't limitless and people can go to jail for certain speech, right?

>>1407209
https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/inciting-to-riot-violence-or-insurrection.html

>>1407200
Except youre fucking wrong, Dems and Repubs only care about their parties and "winning". They dont care what their electorate thinks outside of campaign season.

>>1407194
Don't worry, both parties will make Israel great again. Just make sure to vote for either the democrat or the republican at the top of the polls, it doesn't matter which one, it will be the same no matter who wins

>>1407178
If the AI is trained on legal images then it is fair game. Puritan

>>1407151
Whatever you say there, Pedo.