Oh great, the last thing I want is something to make furries free speech heroes because it's blatantly unconstitutional.
It won't make anyone a free speech hero. The bill is in response, in part, to pornhub hosting a video of a 14 year old being raped for six months while she begged and pleaded with them to take it down, until she ultimately had to pretend to be a fucking lawyer to get them to remove it.
Pornhub hosted child porn, knowingly. Rather than have this bill, I'd prefer if the entire board of executives for MindGeek was executed. But apparently hosting child porn on the world's largest service to distribute free porn doesn't get a death-penalty. That'd be preferable. But making it easier, by law, to force platforms to remove videos of child rape when their moderators are too fucking retarded to listen to the fucking victim herself? I prefer that to the current hellscape.
Of course, "PROHIBITION ON DOWNLOADS.—On and after the 7 date that is 90 days after the date of enactment of this 8 Act, a covered platform may not permit the download to a retrievable data file of any pornographic image from the platform." is beyond fucking retarded because it's not possible at all.
Section 5, private right of action, is just good, period. In fact, most of this bill is good. It closes a lot of holes that have allowed revenge porn and the like to proliferate on the internet. It makes it easier for victims to get their stuff removed from websites.
This isn't a FOSTA/CESTA situation where it's just chasing the child-sellers underground and making it harder for LEA to track it. This shit gives MORE power to the camwhores. Now they can prevent the reuploading of their work. They can control the spread, and force people to come to them to see it.
This bill, I shit you not, should do more good for camwhores than bad. Not only that, it opens up a new niche-industry. A camwhore version of the RIAA/MPAA. A CWAA,if you will, or SWAA if you want to use the nice terms instead. 10% income to the SWAA and they scour all the websites for your content to get it pulled. 10% cost gets a bigger boost of income. Don't listen to the twitter idiots. Don't even listen to the retarded libertarians whining about "muh free speech". Unless I'm reading the bill completely wrong, the worst thing this bill does is identify drawn works as well... and that still gives copyright-holders of an OC(donut steel) to get work they didn't approve taken down.
Edit: Here's the actual bill. Someone who reads legalese and does more than just skim it can check my work.
