“Take it Down Act” to Protect Children from Online Sex Abuse had Bipartisan Support with Unanimous Senate Approval – Musk and Trump Killed It

Last night the House of Representatives approved the bill to stop the U.S. Government from shutting down, and Elon Musk came out the big winner (Donald Trump - not so much), by getting two provisions removed that would have hurt his companies and potentially reduced much of his wealth. The only thing that the House did not agree to was Trump's desire to raise the debt ceiling for two years, which would have pushed it off until the mid-term elections in 2026. But now we get to go through this whole show again in a few weeks at the beginning of March, 2025. The one provision that was killed and that so far I have not seen anyone in the media ask "why?", was the removal of the widely popular "Take it Down Act" which had bipartisan support, would protect children from being sexually abused online from pornography developed through AI without their consent, and had already passed the Senate by a unanimous vote. It was in the original bill that was set to be approved before Musk used his X bully pulpit to stop it. The other thing Musk was successful in removing, was a provision to limit Tech investments in China.