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    "title": "Suspicious-Transmission Bills and Reporting Drift",
    "description": "A U.S. policy dossier on proposed broader reporting models that could move online services closer to suspicious-activity review for speech, chats, and prompts.",
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            "suspicious-transmission-reporting",
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            "cooper-davis-act",
            "online-safety-reporting-bills"
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        "title": "Suspicious-Transmission Bills and Reporting Drift",
        "description": "A U.S. policy dossier on proposed broader reporting models that could move online services closer to suspicious-activity review for speech, chats, and prompts.",
        "kicker": "Proposed reporting drift",
        "lead": "The broad danger is not a statute named thoughtcrime. It is a suspicious-activity model for online speech.",
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        "related": [
            "us-illegal-information-requests",
            "us-provider-reporting-pipes",
            "algorithmic-refusal-safety-paternalism",
            "lawful-thought-paradox",
            "judgment-machine"
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            {
                "heading": "Why proposed bills matter",
                "body": [
                    "Several U.S. proposals do not create a general “unlawful thought” category, but they show a legislative direction: move more reporting duties from narrow, actual-knowledge child-exploitation channels toward broader provider detection of suspicious transmissions or targeted categories such as drug-sale communications.",
                    "A broad suspicious-transmission model can pressure providers to scan, classify, and preserve borderline user speech, prompts, chats, and search-like text. That is the bridge from conduct evidence to pre-conduct inquiry classification."
                ]
            },
            {
                "heading": "Policy map",
                "table": {
                    "headers": [
                        "Instrument",
                        "Status",
                        "What it pressures providers to do",
                        "Cognitive-liberty risk"
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                        [
                            "See Something, Say Something Online Act of 2023",
                            "Proposed; not treated here as enacted general law.",
                            "Report suspicious user transmissions connected to major crimes and send user identifiers, text, information, and metadata to DOJ.",
                            "Closest proposal to a Bank Secrecy Act-style suspicious-activity regime for online speech."
                        ],
                        [
                            "Cooper Davis Act",
                            "Proposed in the reviewed cycle.",
                            "Report certain drug-sale or distribution evidence to DEA.",
                            "Targeted but expandable reporting logic; risk of scanning ordinary discussions or treatment-related speech."
                        ],
                        [
                            "STOP CSAM Act of 2025",
                            "Proposed / pending in the reviewed cycle.",
                            "Expand child-exploitation reporting and platform accountability duties.",
                            "Targeted subject matter, but can still intensify scanning and takedown incentives."
                        ],
                        [
                            "EARN IT proposals",
                            "Proposed in prior/reintroduced forms, not general prompt law.",
                            "Modify liability and best-practice pressure around online child-exploitation prevention.",
                            "Can increase scanning pressure even when statutory language does not literally mandate universal monitoring."
                        ],
                        [
                            "KOSA 2025",
                            "Proposed in the reviewed cycle.",
                            "Design duties, tools, safeguards, and recommender controls for minors.",
                            "Activity classification and recommender governance can become overbroad if content categories are vague."
                        ],
                        [
                            "TAKE IT DOWN Act",
                            "Enacted as Public Law 119-12.",
                            "Criminalizes intentional disclosure of covered nonconsensual intimate visual depictions and requires covered platforms to implement removal processes.",
                            "Victim-notice and content-removal workflow, not general query tracking; still relevant to takedown infrastructure and false-removal risk."
                        ]
                    ]
                }
            },
            {
                "heading": "The line to hold",
                "body": [
                    "Target concrete criminal conduct and victimization. Do not build generalized suspicious-inquiry reporting. Do not collapse research, fiction, journalism, safety testing, support-seeking, legal analysis, or private curiosity into facilitation merely because a phrase resembles a forbidden subject.",
                    "A provider should be free to refuse direct facilitation of concrete rights violations. It should not silently score the person, mutate the preserved inquiry, or create a hidden dossier of deviant questions."
                ],
                "callout": "Refuse execution, not existence."
            },
            {
                "heading": "Sources",
                "sources": [
                    {
                        "label": "GovInfo — TAKE IT DOWN Act, Public Law 119-12",
                        "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ12"
                    },
                    {
                        "label": "CBO — S.1080, Cooper Davis Act",
                        "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59747"
                    },
                    {
                        "label": "CBO — S.1829, STOP CSAM Act of 2025",
                        "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61842"
                    },
                    {
                        "label": "LegiScan — S.147 See Something, Say Something Online Act of 2023",
                        "url": "https://legiscan.com/US/bill/SB147/2023"
                    }
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