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Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

Take It Down Act is a total censorial mess. And yet, a ton of "progressive" Dems are supporting it, even as it will enable the highly politicized and weaponized FTC to go after websites and demand content be removed from the internet. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...

techdirt.comCongress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down ActHere’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …

Mike Masnick

@masnick.com

28 Apr 2025

And... the two "no" votes were... GOP.

Mike Masnick

@masnick.com

28 Apr 2025

Disappointing to see @aoc.bsky.social, who had raised serious concerns with the bill in its current form, and how the FTC would abuse it... then vote for it. No votes were Massie (who votes down everything) and Burlison (no idea who that is). clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

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SuperNerd

@thenerdy.one

28 Apr 2025

I want to believe there is something I am missing here... Why, after we've seen how badly subjective decisions can be abused, would people think this is a good idea?!??!!!

Mike Masnick

@masnick.com

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Mike Masnick@masnick.com

The attack ads write themselves for anyone who votes against a bill that, on its face, is about tackling the very real problem of non-consensual intimate imagery (just the mechanism is bad here). Bill was going to pass no matter what. So many Dems unwilling to give fodder for attack ads.

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