Melania Trump calls for law against revenge porn in the digital age
Melania Trump calls for law against revenge porn in the digital age
Washington, USA - Melania Trump, the first lady in the USA, addressed a pressing topic at a round table in the US capitol: revenge porn. This extremely questionable practice, in which intimate pictures and videos are secretly put on the Internet without the consent of the people depicted, was described in the society characterized by artificial intelligence as particularly alarming. In her passionate appeal, Melania Trump called for stricter laws to protect young people who are often victims of such digital attacks. She pointed out that the abuse on the Internet has significantly impaired the everyday life of families, and emphasized the need to counteract this growing problem in order to ensure the safe use of social media, as well reported .
The draft law "Take It Down Act"
At this event, First Lady, first Lady showed its complete backing for a new law design called "Take IT Down Act", which classifies the publication or threatening of the publication of such content as a federal crime. In particular, AI-generated content is also affected, in which, for example, modern technology is transferred to a person's face without their consent to another person in a pornographic context. Melania Trump spoke during her first speech in the Capitol after her return to the White House about the harrowing effects on victims, including a 15-year-old girl, whose intimate picture was continued to be spread viral despite the family's calls to help, as by the Allgäuer Zeitung reports .The law, which was brought in joint by the Republican Senator Ted Cruz and the democratic senator Amy Klobuchar, has already been approved in the Senate and is now in front of the House of Representatives. If the draft is adopted, he obliges large platforms to delete revenge porn from their pages in order to ensure the protection of privacy and to increase the pressure on social media to actively act against this form of digital abuse.
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