Earlier this month, the Senate passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), by a voice vote. The bill is meant to speed up the removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including videos that imitate real people, a technology sometimes called “deepfakes.” Protecting victims of these heinous...
What is the implication for Lemmy and other federated platforms? Is running a Lemmy instance going to now come with a huge legal risk and moderation requirements that three people with day jobs can’t handle?
I’d imagine this will speed up defederation in some cases, but I’ve not run into any such material here.
I wouldn’t think it wouldn’t be any more of a legal requirement than making sure you keep CSAM off your servers as with current laws, just now with deep fakes too.
The change this would make is that you only have 48 hours to take the content down, meaning you basically have to take it down even if it’s a bogus request due to time restraints.
It’s somewhat more comparable to DMCA takedowns I think.