Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, giving the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don’t like. President Trump himself has said that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president’s desk.

    • GuyFawkes@midwest.social
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      22 hours ago

      The article mentioned requiring a reporting mechanism which must be resolved within 48 hours. Because of the impracticality of the timeframe it went on to assume that anything reported would just be removed.

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        19 hours ago

        Yeah that will only be true for the rich and powerful. Ever go to the police as a poor for stalking?

        The same way that Facebook can say “no” when you ask them to stop training AI on your data they will just send it to an automated not that will find no issue and deny the takedown but for those that pay I’m sure it will be very effective.