April 2025

It happened: Congress passed an actual bill addressing Artificial Intelligence harms. Or an actual bill regulating online content. Either way, it was a rare event. Assuming President Donald Trump signs it, the Take It Down Act will create a federal mandate for tech platforms to remove nonconsensual AI-generated porn, offering new protections for victims at a time when the abuse of highly convincing “deepfake” imagery is rapidly growing. The problem with nonconsensual AI porn would seem obvious—though you could say that about a lot of problems with online content.

President Trump's ever-evolving tariff policies have cast a cloud on Harmonic's broadband business, which includes new nodes that power the cable industry's distributed access architecture network upgrades. While President Trump's tariff policies will have little to no impact on Harmonic's video business, the company does anticipate "more significant impacts" on its broadband business, Harmonic CFO Walter Jankovic said on the company's Q1 2024 earnings call. Notably, one of Harmonic's primary third-party manufacturing sites is in Malaysia.

The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition submitted reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission regarding the In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete request for comments. SHLB's reply focused on the Universal Service Fund, and particularly the E-Rate and Rural Health Care programs. "We continue to emphasize that recommendations should ensure that Commission-led initiatives ultimately work to benefit anchor institutions and their communities and streamline the administration of the E-Rate and Rural Health Care programs."

The Benton Institute, in partnership with Access Humboldt, Common Sense Media, EveryoneOn, the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance, New America's Open Technology Institute, and Public Knowledge, submitted reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission regarding the In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete request for comments. The groups highlighted areas of consensus, agreement, and opposition based on review of the Delete, Delete, Delete docket.