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Ted Cruz: “Secondly, it gives you the right, if, God forbid, you're the…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 32:59

And so I drafted a bill that's called the Take It down act, that number one, makes it a crime, makes it a felony to post non consensual intimate imagery, either real pictures or fake pictures. And Secondly, it gives you the right, if, God forbid, you're the victim of this, any tech platform that is displaying that content, you have a federal statutory right to demand they take it down and, and they have to take it down immediately. And we passed that through the Senate, we passed that through the House. The First Lady, Melania Trump, was a big champion. (32:59–33:13)

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Asserts that the Take It Down Act provides victims the right to demand removal of non-consensual imagery from platforms.

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