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  • Mace's Deepfake Bills and Takedown Power Without Process

    Rep. Nancy Mace's deepfake and revenge-porn bills, and the RESPECT Act she built to strengthen the TAKE IT DOWN Act's takedown regime, advance a removal system that the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a twelve-group civil-liberties coalition warn has no safeguard against false or bad-faith takedown demands: content comes offline on an unverified report, within 48 hours, with no process for the person who posted it. The harm these bills target is real, but the enforcement model hands a delete button to anyone willing to file a claim. This page documents that critique and the bills behind it.