The Congress approves a revenge porn law, which is supported by First Lady Melania Trump: NPR

A legislative template supported by Melania Trump and which aims to implement strict punishments and guidelines for those who publish and promote vengeance porn is on the way to President Trump's desk.

More than 400 house representatives voted for the Take IT Down Act, which serves as an acronym for: tools to combat known use by immobilizing technological deeper on websites and networks.

The draft law was introduced by Senator Ted Cruz from Texas in January and approved by the Senate in February.

“Today's cross -party farewell to the Take IT Down Act is a strong statement that we have united to protect our children's dignity, privacy and security,” said Melania Trump on Monday. “I am the members of the Congress Sowohl in the house as well as in the Senate thumbbar, who voted to protect our youth.”

The law states that criminals of the prison period, a fine or both to publish “intimate visual representations” of real and computer -generated people from adults or minors without their consent or with harmful intentions.

Public forums, including websites, apps and other online platforms, would have to include a way for topics of revenge porn to apply for it to be described. The platforms would then have 48 hours to remove the content.

“It protects young girls and young women and it is a huge cross -party victory that we win this evening,” said Cruz in ABC News on Monday.

Melania Trump previously headed an initiative that focused on children. During President Trump's first term, Melania Trump began to be “BE BEST” initiative and encouraged children to “be best in their individual ways” and, according to an archive of the Weiße House, to inform them of the importance of social, emotional and physical health.

The program mainly focused on “well-being, online security and opioid abuse,” says the website. To support the initiative, Melania Trump worked together with a task force to deal with allegations of sexual abuse in the community of American indigenous people to meet with technology companies in order to understand their protection for young users, and set themselves up for an increase in addiction treatment centers for the provision of addiction treatments Support for mothers and their children according to the administration.

“Through this critical legislation and our continued focus with 'BE Best', we are building up a future in which every child can thrive and exhaust his full potential,” said Melania Trump on Monday.