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AK Amy Klobuchar Amy Klobuchar Amy Klobuchar is a Democratic U.S. senator from Minnesota.

“Senator Cruz and I joined forces and introduced this bill called the Take It Down Act. It simply says the platforms have to take down these non-consensual images in 48 hours and then creates criminal liability on the people that put them on.”

This is Gavin Newsom · May 2025

“Senator Cruz and I joined forces and introduced this bill called the Take It Down Act. It simply says the platforms have to take down these non-consensual images in 48 hours and then creates criminal liability on the people that put them on.” — Amy Klobuchar, This is Gavin Newsom

Context

Sen. Amy Klobuchar on the This is Gavin Newsom podcast in May 2025, describing the Take It Down Act she co-sponsored with Sen. Ted Cruz, which President Trump had signed the day before.

Transcript

This is Gavin Newsom Around 00:56 into the episode
Gavin Newsom

…of status, but you're often not necessarily affirmed that there's a lot of progress being made, but you are able to lay claim to a lot of progress, including just yesterday, President Trump signed a bill to Take it Down Act, a bipartisan bill that you and Ted CRU's co sponsor tell me more about it.

Amy Klobuchar

So this came out of which I know you're familiar with all this, but just what's going on in the internet right now where there's no rules and you've got a non consensual and AI created porn and one year, this is FBI stats, or over twenty suicides of kids they are courting a girlfriend or a boyfriend. They send a photo and then that photo goes all over their schools or there's some kind of threat or you know, asking for money, and they think their life is over and they actually take their own lives. So Center Cruise and I he is the chair of the Commerce Committee right now, we joined forces and introduced this bill called the Take It Down Act. It simply says the platforms have to take down these images non consential images in forty eight hours and then creates criminal liability on the people that put them on or extends criminal liability. So we got that through the Senate, but then we were stopped at the end of the year. It was part of a bigger bill. And at the inaugural lunch, as you're aware of, Governor, I cheered the…

Gavin Newsom

So I love that, I mean. And so a couple of things just to reflect on. And I want to go back to the inaugural because people were I think a lot of folks wondering why is Senator Klobahark kicking off the inaugural festivities? And we'll talk about your unique role in that respect, but how about just…

Amy Klobuchar

I mean?

Gavin Newsom

What?

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