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Self published material and material covered by other law are excepted

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

Self published material and material covered by other law are excepted

The document says “shall notWho acts: any personHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says

“a person who possesses or publishes an intimate visual depiction of himself or herself engaged in nudity or sexually explicit conduct (as that term is defined in section 2256(2)(A) of title 18, United States Code)”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 2

The last exceptions to the offenses in paragraph (2). A person who possesses or publishes a depiction of himself or herself is outside the prohibition, as is a disclosure reasonably intended to assist the identifiable individual, and as is a publication that constitutes child pornography under section 2256 of title 18, United States Code, or a depiction described in section 1466A(a) or (b) of that title. Those provisions of title 18 are cited, not indexed here.

What the document actually says

“a person who possesses or publishes an intimate visual depiction of himself or herself engaged in nudity or sexually explicit conduct (as that term is defined in section 2256(2)(A) of title 18, United States Code)”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 2
That sentence, in plain words

You can post a nude image of yourself. That is not covered here.

What this is about

Help meant for the person in the image is not covered either. Some images fall under other laws. This site has not indexed those laws.

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    Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, Public Law 119-12, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 55 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ12/html/PLAW-119publ12.htm

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    “Self published material and material covered by other law are excepted,” Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/tools-address-known-exploitation-by-immobilizing/proposal/sec02-exceptions-self-and-other-law/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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