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The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday advanced the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146) , a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of certain kinds of troubling online content. While the bill is meant to address a serious problem—the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)—the notice-and-takedown system it creates is an open invitation for powerful people to pressure websites into removing content they dislike. 

As we’ve written before, while protecting victims of these heinous privacy invasions is a legitimate goal, good intentions alone are not enough to make good policy. 

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This bill mandates a notice-and-takedown system that threatens free expression, user privacy, and due process, without meaningfully addressing the problem it claims to solve. The “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. 

The legislation’s 48-hour takedown deadline means that online service providers, particularly smaller ones, will have to comply quickly to avoid legal risks. That time crunch will make it impossible for services to verify the content is in fact NCII. Instead, services will rely on automated filters—infamously blunt tools that frequently flag legal content, from fair-use commentary to news reporting.

Communications providers that offer users end-to-end encrypted messaging, meanwhile, may be served with notices they simply cannot comply with, given the fact that these providers cannot view the contents of messages on their platforms. Platforms may respond by abandoning encryption entirely in order to be able to monitor content—turning private conversations into surveilled spaces. 

While several committee Members offered amendments to clarify these problematic provisions in the bill during committee consideration, committee leadership rejected all attempts to amend the bill. 

The TAKE IT DOWN Act is now expected to receive a floor vote in the coming weeks before heading to President Trump’s desk for his signature. Both the President himself and First Lady Melania Trump have been vocal supporters of this bill, and they have been urging Congress to quickly pass it. Trump has shown just how the bill can be abused, saying earlier this year that he would personally use the takedown provisions to censor speech critical of the president.

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TELL CONGRESS: "Take It Down" Has No real Safeguards  

Fast tracking a censorship bill is always troubling. TAKE IT DOWN is the wrong approach to helping people whose intimate images are shared without their consent. We can help victims of online harassment without embracing a new regime of online censorship.

Congress should strengthen and enforce existing legal protections for victims, rather than opting for a broad takedown regime that is ripe for abuse. 

Tell your Member of Congress to oppose censorship and to oppose S. 146.

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Sonic is easily the top internet provider in San Francisco, but there are plenty of other options -- including budget-friendly and high-speed plans.