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Likely wearisome for victims, the law won't be widely enforced for about a year, while any revenge porn already online continues spreading
Perhaps most frustrating, once the law kicks in, victims will still need to police their own revenge porn online
And the 48-hour window leaves time for content to be downloaded and reposted, leaving them vulnerable on any unmonitored platforms.Some
victims are already tired of fighting this fight
Last July, when Google started downranking deepfake porn apps to make AI-generated NCII less discoverable, one deepfake victim, Sabrina
Javellana, told The New York Times that she spent months reporting harmful content on various platforms online
Joe Morelle, a Democratic US representative who has talked to victims of deepfake porn and sponsored laws to help them, agreed that "these
images live forever.""It just never ends," Javellana said
different platforms [increases] their sense of isolation, shame, and fear."While the Take It Down Act seems flawed, passing a federal law
imposing penalties for allowing deepfake porn posts could serve as a deterrent for bad actors or possibly spark a culture shift by making it
clear that posting AI-generated NCII is harmful.Victims have long suggested that consistency is key to keeping revenge porn offline, and the
Take It Down Act certainly offers that, creating a moderately delayed delete button on every major platform.Although it seems clear that the
Take It Down Act will surely make it easier than ever to report NCII, whether the law will effectively reduce the spread of NCII online is
an unknown and will likely hinge on the 48-hour timeline overcoming criticisms.
