 In the meantime, those fake explicit images were still on the internet for more than eight months until Senator Cruz's office stepped in and Snapchat finally took down the boys' two accounts. The Take It Down Act would require websites to remove content within 48 hours notice from victims. It would also make it a federal crime to publish explicit images of another person, real or fake, without their consent or to threaten to publish the images online, addressing the related problem of sextortion.