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The Take It Down Act Is a Free Speech Killer

2025/5/23
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通过深入探讨互联网文化和政治,Taylor Lorenz 为听众提供了对在线世界的深刻分析。
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Taylor Lorenz: 我认为目前网络言论自由正受到前所未有的攻击。《下架法案》以打击非自愿私密图像为名,实则允许任何人随意要求下架任何他们不喜欢的网络内容,无需任何理由,且必须在48小时内完成。主流媒体对此视而不见,反而推波助澜。我认为捍卫网络言论自由是我们时代最重要的问题之一,因为互联网赋予了每个人发声的权利,但也因此,我们看到了对网络言论权利的空前攻击。我们需要警惕这种以监管为名,实则限制言论的立法趋势。 Becca Branum: 我认为《下架法案》的起草含糊不清,可能对网络言论和隐私产生重大影响。该法案的主要缺陷是,一旦收到投诉,平台无需验证内容是否为非自愿私密图像,甚至无需考虑是否包含裸露图像。这意味着该法案很容易被滥用,成为政治武器。虽然该法案旨在解决非自愿私密图像的问题,但实际上可能会导致对大量与此无关的言论进行审查。更令人担忧的是,特朗普政府已经表现出利用该法案打击异己的意愿,这使得情况更加复杂。因此,我认为我们需要警惕该法案的潜在危害,并努力改善其执行,以保护用户的言论自由。

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The stated goal of the Take it Down Act is to combat non consensual intimate images (NCII), colloquially known as revenge p**n. This includes things like AI generated nude deep fakes and other explicit imagery shared without a person's consent.

Cracking down on this seems great right? Sadly that's not what this law does. What the Take It Down Act actually does is make it so that anyone, at any time, can get content posted about them online that they don't like taken off the internet within 48 hours, no questions asked.

Becca Branum, Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology's Free Expression Project has been fighting this law. She joins me to break down exactly how the Take It Down Act will function and the terrifying ways the Trump administration is already planning to weaponize it.

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