Publishes adult content, in the United States

18 U.S.C. §§ 1466A and 2256(8) · Read the law's page

• Do not produce, distribute, receive, or possess with intent to distribute a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, painting, or computer generated image, that depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and is obscene, where a communication involved in the offense is transported by the mail or in interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer, or another circumstance in subsection (d) applies.
• Do not produce, distribute, receive, or possess with intent to distribute an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse and that lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
• Do not knowingly possess either kind of depiction; possession is a separate offense under subsection (b).
• Do not treat the absence of a real child as a defense: it is not a required element of any offense under section 1466A that the minor depicted actually exist, so a wholly computer-generated depiction is within the section.
• Treat a digital, computer, or computer-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, and an image altered to appear that an identifiable minor is engaging in it, as child pornography within the definition in section 2256(8).
• To keep the possession defense in subsection (e), hold fewer than 3 such depictions and promptly and in good faith either destroy each one or report it to a law enforcement agency and give that agency access, without retaining or allowing anyone else to access any of them.

47 U.S.C. 223(h), as added by Pub. L. 119-12, sec. 2 · Read the law's page

• Do not use an interactive computer service to knowingly publish a digital forgery, an intimate depiction of an identifiable individual created with software, machine learning, artificial intelligence or other technological means that is indistinguishable from an authentic depiction, without the depicted individual's consent.
• Do not publish a digital forgery of an identifiable minor with intent to abuse, humiliate, harass or degrade the minor, or to arouse or gratify anyone's sexual desire.
• Do not threaten to publish a digital forgery to intimidate, coerce, extort or cause mental distress.

Pub. L. 119-12, S. 146, 119th Cong. (2025) · Read the law's page

• Establish a process to remove a nonconsensual intimate visual depiction, including an AI-generated depiction, within 48 hours of a valid request from the depicted individual or their representative.