Americans!
Marsha Blackburn, obviously angered by KOSA stalling and wanting to appease Trump and music/movie industry lobbyists, introduced a bill (TRUMP AMERICA AI Act) right before winter recess that does the following:
-Neuters Section 230 by adding a "Bad Samaritan" provision that would make platforms liable for “facilitating or soliciting third-party content that violates federal criminal law.” Section 230 already has an exemption for this!
-Essentially shoves in the NO FAKES Act's provisions of mandating a) taking down speech upon receipt of a notice; b) keeping down any recurring instance—meaning, adopt inevitably overbroad replica filters on top of the already deeply flawed copyright filters; c) taking down and filtering tools that might have been used to make the image; and d) unmasking the user who uploaded the material based on nothing more than the say so of person who was allegedly “replicated.”
-Essentially shoves in all of the harmful provisions in the Senate version of KOSA ("duty of care" and all that).
-Completely upends copyright law by effectively wiping out fair use, creating a new form of copyright infringement specifically for AI-generated works, giving the FTC a role in enforcing copyright law, and revamping how collective licensing works.
In short: It's essentially every bad internet bill rolled into one omnibus bill.
Apparently, our lawmakers can't got more then 5 minutes without introducing more mass censorship legislation. It's full on war of attrition, shove a bunch of shit through in hopes something passes.
Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
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