Trump signs the act of withdrawal of the law

President Donald Trump has signed the law on management, promulgating a bill that will criminalize the distribution of non -consensual intimate images (NCII) – including Deepfakes – and demand that social media platforms delete them quickly when they are informed.

The bill crossed the two chambers of the congress with several technological companies, defenders of parents and young people, and the first lady Melania Trump defending the problem. But criticisms – including a group which has been responsible for combating the distribution of such images – warns that its approach could turn around and harm the very survivors that he seeks to protect.

The law makes the publication of NCII, whether real or generated by AI, passable by criminal up to three years in prison, more fines. It also requires that social media platforms have processes to remove the NCII within 48 hours of notification and “make reasonable efforts” to remove copies. The Federal Trade Commission is responsible for enforcing the law and companies have one year to comply.

Under any other administration, the law on taking Electronic border foundation (Effect Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), which warn the withdrawal of withdrawal could be used to delete or cool a range of content wider than expected, as well as to threaten confidentiality protection technologies such as encryption, because the services that use it would have no way to see (or delete) messages between users. But the actions of the Trump administration during its first 100 days in power – notably in violation of the previous Supreme Court License of the two Minority Democratic Commissioners at the FTC – added another layer of fear for some of the criticism of the law, which fear that it can be used to threaten or stifle political opponents. Trump, after all, said During an address at the Congress this year That once he signed the bill, “I will also use this bill for myself, if you don’t mind, because no one is being treated worse than me online. Nobody.”

The Cyber ​​Civil Rights initiative (CCRI), which recommends legislation fighting against image -based abuses, has long put pressure for the criminalization of the non -consensual distribution of intimate images (NDII). But the CCRI said that he could not support the withdrawal act because he could ultimately provide the survivors with a “false hope”. On Bluesky, the president of the CCRI, Mary Anne Franks, called the withdrawal of withdrawal A “poisoned pill … which will probably end up hurting the victims more than it helps.”

“The platforms that seem convinced that they are not likely to be targeted by the FTC (for example, the platforms which are closely aligned with the current administration) may feel embraced to simply ignore the reports of NDII,” they wrote. “The platforms that try to identify authentic complaints may encounter a sea of ​​false relationships that could overwhelm their efforts and compromise their ability to work.”

In an interview The penisFranks said he was concerned about the fact that he could be “difficult for people to analyze” the layout of withdrawal. “It will be a one-year process,” she said. “I think that as soon as this process has occurred, you will then see that the FTC is very selective in the way they deal with the supposed non-compliance of the law. It will not be to put power in the hands of individuals represented to really delete their content. ”

Trump, during his signing ceremony, disdained in a disdainly criticism of the bill. “People talked about all kinds of first amendments, the second amendment … They talked about any amendments they could invent, and we have succeeded,” he said.

Legal challenges to the most problematic parties may not immediately come, however, according to Branum, deputy director of the CDT Free Expression Project. “It is so ambiguously written that I think it will be difficult for a court to analyze when it is applied unconstitutionally” before the platforms must implement it, said Branum. Finally, users could continue if they had the lawful content of the platforms withdrawn, and companies could ask a court to cancel the law if the FTC survey or penalize it to break it – it simply depends on the speed with which the application folds.