1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

I am writing to urge you to oppose the “Take it Down” bill as it is currently written. I appreciate the attempt to address a legitimate problem — non-consensual intimate imagery — but this bill does so with a censorship mechanism so obviously prone to abuse that the president couldn’t even wait until it passed to announce his plans to misuse it. During his address to Congress this week, Donald Trump endorsed the Take It Down Act while openly declaring his plans to abuse it: “And I’m going to use that bill for myself too, if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.” A law designed with giant, exploitable holes doesn’t actually solve the problem. If it becomes primarily a tool for the powerful to suppress criticism (as Trump just promised), victims of actual NCII will be left with a discredited law that courts may eventually strike down entirely. The real goal should be a targeted, constitutional solution — not a censorship free-for-all that the president openly plans to weaponize against his critics. That serves no one except those who want to silence opposition.