President Donald Trump signed legislation backed by his wife aimed at protecting young people from “revenge porn.”
“Big thing, very important, so horrible it takes place,” the president said at the Monday bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden. “This would be the first-ever federal law to combat the distribution of explicit, imagery posted without subjects’ consent.”
The House of Representatives on April 28 approved the bill against “revenge porn” by a 409-2 vote, after it passed the Senate unanimously in February, in a powerful showing of bipartisan support for legislation backed by first lady Melania Trump. Revenge porn is the malicious distribution of sexual images of a victim.
The Take It Down Act would impose legal penalties for creating deepfake artificial intelligence-created pornography using a victim’s image and would “require…
