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Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks ActSection 2 › Proposal

Publishing a digital forgery of a minor is made unlawful

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

Publishing a digital forgery of a minor is made unlawful

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

“it shall be unlawful for any person, in interstate or foreign commerce, to use an interactive computer service to knowingly publish a digital forgery of an identifiable individual who is a minor with intent to-- ``(i) abuse, humiliate, harass, or degrade the minor; or ``(ii) arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.”

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

The fourth offense, and the mirror for digital forgeries of the offense in paragraph (2)(B). Publishing a digital forgery of an identifiable minor with intent to abuse, humiliate, harass or degrade the minor, or to arouse or gratify anyone's sexual desire, is unlawful. The exceptions in paragraph (3)(C) apply.

What the document actually says

“it shall be unlawful for any person, in interstate or foreign commerce, to use an interactive computer service to knowingly publish a digital forgery of an identifiable individual who is a minor with intent to-- ``(i) abuse, humiliate, harass, or degrade the minor; or ``(ii) arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.”

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

You cannot post a fake nude image of a child. Not to shame them. Not for sexual thrill.

What this is about

A fake image counts the same as a real one here. What matters is what the poster meant to do.

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