Trump and his wife Melania sign the “Take it down act”

Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump On Monday in law the Take it down act, A measure that imposes punishments for the sexual online exploitation of this first lady Melania Trump Halfed to guide the congress through the congress, and he also signed it, even though it sounded like a mild objection to her part.

“Come on, still sign it,” said the president of his wife. “She deserves to sign it,” he said.

After adding her signature, the President held up the document to show the two names to the audience at the ceremony in the rose garden of the White House. Melania Trump's signature is only symbolic because the first women are not chosen and they are not a role in the entry into force of the legislation.

In March Melania Trump used her first public appearance since the role of First Lady was resumed Travel to Capitol Hill to the members of the House House to Lobby To adopt the legislative template after its approval by the Senate.

In the case of an signing ceremony, it described the new law as a “national victory” that protects children from online exploitation, including the use of artificial intelligence to create false images.

“AI and social media are the digital sweets for the next generation, sweet addicts and constructs to affect the cognitive development of our children,” she said. “But in contrast to sugar, these new technologies can be armed that shape beliefs and unfortunately influence the emotions and even be fatal.”

The President said that the spread of pictures that were taken with AI means that “countless women were bothered with Deepfakes and other explicit images that are distributed against their will”. He said what happens is “just so terribly wrong”.

“Today we make it completely illegal,” said Trump.

The legislation makes it a federal crime, “knowingly publish” or threaten to publish intimate images without the consent of a person, including AI created “deeppakes”. Websites and social media companies must remove this material within 48 hours of requesting a victim. The platforms must also take measures to delete double content.

Many states have already banned the spread of sexually explicitly explicit deep porn or revenge porn, but the Take IT Down Act is a rare example of the supervision of the federal government on Internet companies.

The legislative template introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnes, received overwhelming support in the congress through two parties, which the house adopted 409-2 in April and eliminated the Senate through unanimous approval.

But the measure is not without critics. Proponents of freedom of speech and digital law groups say that the legislative template is too wide and could lead to the censorship of legitimate images, including legal pornography and LGBTQ content. Others say that the government could enable private communication to monitor and undermine the proper procedure.

The First Lady appeared in a Capitol Hill -Roundtable with legislators and young women who had put explicit pictures of them online and said it was “heartbreaking” to see what teenagers and especially girls go through after this happens. She also accepted a victim among her guests for the president's address for a joint congress meeting the day after this meeting.

After the house had passed the law, Melania Trump said that the cross -party coordination was a “strong statement that we can be combined to protect the dignity, privacy and security of our children.”

Your legal office for the invoice is a continuation of The best campaign she started in the first term of office of the PresidentConcentration on the well -being of children, the use of social media and the abuse of opioid.

In his speech before the Congress in March, the President said that he was looking forward to signing the bill.

“And I will also use this calculation for myself if it doesn't matter to them,” he said, adding that there is no one who is “treated worse than me online. Nobody”.