United States "Take it Down" law
The United States recently passed a law about social media moderation responsibilities with regard to revenge porn, referred to as the "Take it Down Act". The Take it Down Act has been described as placing unrealistic moderation burden on online platforms, particularly smaller platforms with limited resources.
This article (https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/24/why-a-new-anti-revenge-porn-law-has-free-speech-experts-alarmed/) raises the question of how the law will affect Mastodon and other federated platforms, so I'm opening the question of how likely it is that the new law will pose problems for social.coop, and whether there are things we need to proactively do to protect ourselves.
Ammar Fri 13 Jun 2025 8:23PM
@Eduardo Mercovich鈥堿FAIK we don't have a legal structure [yet?]
Can we pull in some folks from Legal WG into this somehow?
Member list is not listed on the wiki page and I don't have access to see members on the loomio group
Billy Smith Mon 26 May 2025 6:29AM
Also the UK online safety law brought in during 2023, but is still being rolled out gradually:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2025-0043/
There are still complaints from SME's and web-forum's about the inequity of the implementation.
Nathan Schneider Mon 26 May 2025 12:25PM
As a reminder, we approved the creation of a Legal Working Group, but we have not yet succeeded in achieving critical mass to make it active: https://wiki.social.coop/wiki/Legal_Working_Group
This is the kind of thing it was intended to engage with.
Ammar Fri 13 Jun 2025 8:24PM
@Nathan Schneider鈥塂o you just need more members? if so, can we make a call for volunteers and kick is off? what can OC and/or other WGs can do to help?
Eduardo Mercovich 路 Wed 28 May 2025 9:13PM
@chrispomeroyhale鈥塹uestion is quite on point. Is this jurisdiction applicable to us?
Broader question... what IS our jurisdiction really, or where is based our legal structure? (whatever it is). 馃槄