Trump signs a bill to make the publication of “revenge porn” a federal crime. He also had the sign of the first lady
Washington – President Donald Trump Monday signed the law on Remove it act, A measure that requires sanctions for online sexual exploitation than the first lady Melania Trump Helped Usher through Congress, and he also signed him, despite what looked like a slight objection on his part.
“Come on, sign it anyway,” the president told his wife. “She deserves to sign it,” he said.
After adding his signature, the president showed the document bearing their two names to the public during the signature ceremony in the Garden Rose of the White House. Melania Trump's signature is simply symbolic because the first ladies are not elected and have no official role in the signing of the legislation.
In March, Melania Trump used her first public appearance since her resumption of the role of the First Lady Go to Capitol Hill to put pressure on the members of the house To adopt the bill following its approval by the Senate.
During a signature ceremony, she described the new law as “national victory” which will help protect children from online exploitation, including by using artificial intelligence to make false images.
“AI and social media are digital candies for the next generation, sweet addictive and designed to have an impact on the cognitive development of our children,” she said. “But unlike sugar, these new technologies can be armed, shape beliefs and, unfortunately, affect emotions and even be fatal.”
The president said that the proliferation of images made using AI means that “countless women have been harassed with deep buttocks and other explicit images distributed against their will”. He said what's going on is “so horribly bad”.
“Today, we make it completely illegal,” said Trump.
The bill makes it a federal crime to “knowingly publish” or to threaten to publish intimate images without the consent of a person, including the “Deepfakes” created by AI. Website and social media companies will have to withdraw this equipment within 48 hours of the request of a victim. The platforms must also take measures to delete double content.
Many states have already prohibited the dissemination of depths of sexually explicit depth or revenge porn, but the decrease law is a rare example of federal regulators imposing on Internet societies.
The bill, sponsored by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and representative Maria Elvira Salazar, r-Fla., Received bipartisan support crushing at the Congress, passing the room in April by a 409-2 vote and cleaning the Senate by unanimous consent.
But the measure is not without criticism. Defenders of freedom of expression and digital rights groups claim that the bill is too wide and could lead to the censorship of legitimate images, including legal pornography and LGBTQ content. Others say that this could allow the government to monitor private communications and undermine the regular procedure.
The First Lady appeared in a round table by Capitol Hill with legislators and young women who had explicit images of them posted online, saying that it was “ripping” to see what adolescents and especially girls are going through after that happens to them. She also included a victim among her guests for the president's speech to a joint session of the congress the day after this meeting.
After the House adopted the bill, Melania Trump said that bipartite vote was a “powerful statement that we are united to protect the dignity, privacy and security of our children”.
His advocacy for the bill is a continuation of BE's best campaignBy focusing on the well-being of children, the use of social media and the abuse of opioids.
In his speech at the Congress in March, the president said that he was eager to sign the bill.
“And I will also use this bill for myself, if you don't mind,” he said, adding, that there is no one who “is treated worse than me online. Nobody.”
