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.
Another step closer to achieving his Nazi wet dream.
While this is bullshit, we should be able to weaponize it right back at them - any lies the administration spews (which let’s face it, that’s everything) needs to be reported relentlessly.
Make them feel it!
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.
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.
House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN
I am confused. The title say congress passed the bill while the article says the house is the one that passed it (so congress should be next).
Which is it?
The bill has passed both the Senate and House so now the president just has to sign it.
Literally the most basic of basic civics… Depressing.
Congress is our legislators. Our Congress is “bicameral”. It is broken down into two houses: the Senate (upper house of Congress), and the House of Representatives (lower house of Congress).
People often use “Congress” as a shorthand for the House of Representatives (but only when they also mention the Senate to make the distinction. Or at least some sort of context making it clear they mean the House).
However, technically, “Congress” includes both houses.
Nobody refers to the Senate alone as “Congress,” and if they do, they’re doing it wrong and likely causing all sorts of confusion.
“Flood the zone” benefits both parties when it comes to power grab shit like this. This barely made headlines until it was already passed and it’s too late.
Isn’t this what the DMCA is for?
Yeah but the DMCA was vaguely reasonable. This is meant to be weaponized.
the DMCA was vaguely reasonable
No it wasn’t. It too was MEANT to be weaponized from day one. The difference is that almost all of the people in control of both parties and all mainstream media were in favor, so it got a false veneer of reasonability in coverage.
The DMCA is just as bad as SOPA and PIPA, which was always the intent from the powerful industry groups lobbying for all three bills and the politicians they own.
I think you mean the communications decency act? Most of that has been found to be unconstitutional as will likely be the fate of this bill…
