406: The Take It Down Act (Is a Weapon)

Jess Miers (Akron Law) discusses the problems with the Take It Down Act—the federal bill that (ostensibly) targets non-consensual intimate imagery.

Topics include:

• What does Take It Down (claim) to do?
• FFS, enforce the laws you have!
• “Sexually explicit content” (in a normal world)
• Brendan Carr is a preview of things to come
• Amy Klobuchar is asleep
• Is the “it” in Take It Down “all adult content”?
• The censorship administration

Links:

Jess’s Bluesky thread on Take It Down

The Take It Down Act Isn’t a law, It’s a Weapon

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