PORNOGRAPHY

Bills and resolutions

Courts: establish appropriate penalties for possession of child pornography and make mandatory sentencing guidelines binding (see S. 353), S312 [9FE]

Crime: allow individuals to sue social media companies that host or distribute child sexual abuse material (see S. 823), S798 [15MR]

——— extend period of time that technology companies are required to preserve reports to CyberTipline relative to child sexual exploitation visual depictions (see H.R. 6246), H5466 [6NO]

——— provide that it is unlawful to distribute private intimate visual depictions without person’s consent (see S. 412), S397 [14FE] (see H.R. 3686), H2636 [25MY]

FCC: require certain pornographic interactive computer services to adopt and operate technology verification measures to ensure that users are not minors (see S. 3314), S5540 [15NO] (see H.R. 6429), H5892 [15NO]

Greene, Representative: censure (see H. Res. 610), H3950 [25JY]

Information technology: hold technology companies accountable for failure to remove child sexual abuse material from their networks and require reports on efforts to keep children safe from online predators (see S. 1199), S1255 [19AP]

Law enforcement: require Internet service providers to provide law enforcement limited window of time to investigate before notifying suspected child predators of existence of lawfully-issued subpoenas (see S. 1406), S1463 [2MY] (see H.R. 3141), H2170 [9MY]

Notices

Intention to object to proceeding to S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligations To Protect Children Suffering From Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act: Senator Wyden, S3500 [20JY]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Defense: prohibit funding to purchase certain books in schools operated by Dept. of Defense Education Activity, H3537, H3538 [13JY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations funding to combat online child exploitation and abuse, H4645 [27SE]

Federal employees: clarify law enforcement of obscene matters not protected by First Amendment relative to prohibition from advocating for censorship of viewpoints in their official capacity, H1191 [8MR]

Greene, Representative: censure (H. Res. 610), H5152 [26OC]

Remarks in Senate

Crime: extend period of time that technology companies are required to preserve reports to CyberTipline relative to child sexual exploitation visual depictions, S687 [8MR]

Information technology: hold technology companies accountable for failure to remove child sexual abuse material from their networks and require reports on efforts to keep children safe from online predators (S. 1199), S1257–S1259 [19AP], S1699 [17MY], S2016 [8JN], S3454 [20JY], S4691 [27SE]

Reports filed

Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 412), S1703 [17MY]

Strengthening Transparency and Obligations To Protect Children Suffering From Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1199), S1646 [15MY]

Texts of

S. 1199, Strengthening Transparency and Obligations To Protect Children Suffering From Abuse and Mistreatment (STOP CSAM) Act, S1259–S1271 [19AP]