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The bill trades substantially stronger, faster protections for victims of cyberstalking and nonconsensual intimate images and greater platform accountability for new compliance costs, privacy risks, and the potential for overbroad removals and regulatory litigation.
People targeted by cyberstalking or nonconsensual intimate images (e.g., women, students, people with disabilities) get faster, stronger relief because platforms must publish notice-and-removal processes and remove offending content quickly (including a statutory duty of care and 48-hour takedown requirement).
Victims and law enforcement gain improved ability to stop and prosecute offenders because the bill requires minimum data logging and allows court-ordered takedowns, speeding investigations and enforcement.
Platforms that remove content in good faith get a safe-harbor from liability, which incentivizes quicker takedowns and reduces legal risk for covered services.
Platforms — especially small or independent services — face new compliance costs and operational burdens that may be passed to users or force some services to scale back or exit, reducing online options.
To avoid liability and to meet rapid takedown deadlines, platforms may over-remove lawful speech, producing a chilling effect on expression for ordinary users and small creators.
Minimum data-logging requirements could lead platforms to retain more identifying data, raising privacy risks for users.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Introduced December 1, 2025 by Jake Auchincloss · Last progress December 1, 2025
Requires online platforms to adopt specific notice-and-removal, logging, and prevention measures for cyberstalking and intimate privacy violations in order to keep their Section 230 liability shield, and expands the definition of who counts as a content creator to include those who use solicitation, encouragement, or generative models. Creates a faster takedown route for victims of deepfakes and related intimate-image abuse, imposes a 48-hour removal target for valid requests, and directs the FTC (with FCC and DOJ input) to issue implementing regulations within 180 days.