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The Take It Down Act has its first defendants, but will the law reach the operators or just the easy targets?
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Two men have been charged under the Take It Down Act, which makes them the first real test of a law that arrived loaded with warnings about over-removal. The question the critics keep asking still stands. Do two prosecutions change anything for the nudify operators who shut down and reopen under a new name overnight, or does enforcement land on whoever is easiest to find while legitimate creators get swept up in the moderation dragnet? Intent matters less than outcome here, and the outcome is still unwritten.
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