Dear U.S. Lawmakers,

Image-based sexual abuse is real abuse.

In the age of AI, anyone can be targeted. You do not have to take an intimate photo to become a victim. Your face, likeness, and identity alone can now be turned into sexually explicit content without your consent and used to shame, threaten, or silence you.

TAKE IT DOWN ACT (Passed and enacted) helps victims get abusive content removed from platforms.
THE DEFIANCE ACT (The Senate has already passed it. The House must act next.) Helps victims go after the person who did it.

What TAKE IT DOWN does: 

The TAKE IT DOWN Act forces covered platforms to give victims a way to report nonconsensual intimate images, including AI-generated ones, and remove them within 48 hours of a valid request. If a platform fails to comply, the FTC can enforce the law, and victims can report violations at TakeItDown.ftc.gov. It is mainly about platform takedowns and enforcement against platforms. Source

What DEFIANCE does that TAKE IT DOWN does not:

The DEFIANCE Act is about civil remedies against perpetrators, especially in cases involving sexually explicit deepfakes and intimate digital forgeries. It would give survivors a stronger and more explicit path to sue people who knowingly create, possess with intent to distribute, disclose, or solicit and receive intimate digital forgeries. It would also allow survivors to seek damages, attorney’s fees, punitive damages, and court orders requiring the defendant to delete, destroy, or stop displaying the material. It also adds stronger privacy protections in court and a longer statute of limitations.

Why we still need DEFIANCE: 

TAKE IT DOWN can help get an image taken down from a platform. But a takedown alone is not the same thing as justice. Survivors still need a strong way to hold perpetrators directly accountable in court, especially in the AI era, where someone can create sexually explicit fake content without a real image ever existing in the first place. DEFIANCE is needed because it strengthens and clarifies the survivor’s ability to sue over deepfake sexual abuse, not just report it and hope a platform removes it.

I know this issue personally. I shared my story in Netflix’s The Most Hated Man on the Internet, and since then victims have reached out to me across every platform looking for help. Survivors should not have to fight technology, shame, and the legal system alone.

Sign this petition and demand that the House pass the DEFIANCE Act now.

A fake nude can destroy a real life.
Congress must act like that is true.

Victims cannot wait. 

About Me

Danielle Green is a brand and operations leader, creative director, and award-winning photographer with more than 20 years of experience across luxury, fashion, hospitality, and creative strategy. She currently serves as COO & Brand Director at Tess Mann Atelier.

Danielle is the founder of Victor by Danielle Green, a victim empowerment initiative previously featured by Rolling Stone, Yahoo News, Psychology in Seattle, and The Tamron Hall Show.

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