Who has to comply with the TAKE IT DOWN Act?

Any “covered platform” — a website, app or online service that primarily provides a forum for user-generated content, or that in the regular course of business publishes intimate visual depictions. The FTC names social media, messaging, image and video sharing, and gaming services. Being small is not a defence.

What makes a removal request valid?

A written request from the depicted person or an authorised representative, carrying a physical or electronic signature, information sufficient to locate the depiction, a good-faith statement that it was published without consent, and contact details. The TrustDesk form collects exactly those four things.

What happens if we miss the 48 hours?

The FTC treats a failure to remove a valid report within 48 hours as an unfair or deceptive act or practice. Civil penalties reach $53,088 per violation, and anyone can report a non-compliant platform directly to the FTC at TakeItDown.ftc.gov.

Is the policy generator really free?

Yes. Give us your platform name, URL and a contact address and you get the policy text plus a footer snippet to paste, with no account and no card. Host it wherever you like — the text is yours to keep. We hold the email so we can tell you if the rules change.

What is the difference between the kit and the hosted desk?

The $19 kit is bought once: your own hosted report form, the policy text and the footer snippet, and an operator email whenever somebody reports something. The $5-a-month desk adds the parts that have to keep running — a 48-hour deadline on every report, an hourly sweep that escalates anything close to the line, and an append-only evidence log.

How long does setup take?

Minutes. Checkout gives you a report link for your platform, the policy text and the footer snippet. Paste the link into your footer and you are receiving reports — there is nothing to install and no SDK.

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TrustDesk vs Cinder for the 48-hour removal law

Cinder is the trust and safety suite whose own published material could actually be read and quoted for this comparison. It solves a different piece of the problem than TrustDesk does, and the two are not substitutes for the same platform.

Last verified September 4, 2026

What Cinder's own material says it does, read 4 September 2026: “Once a platform becomes a StopNCII.org partner, Cinder handles the rest. We check content hashes, route matches on images and videos, and trigger enforcement actions.” Its own case study names no victim-facing intake form, no 48-hour clock and no per-request TIDA evidence record.; cinder.ai, StopNCII and Cinder Partner
The prerequisite Cinder's own sentence states: The covered platform must already be a StopNCII.org Industry Partner before Cinder's integration applies; cinder.ai, StopNCII and Cinder Partner
TrustDesk's own price, from this repository's checkout table: $19 once (Compliance Kit) or $5 a month (Hosted Desk); trustdesk.thecompound.tech/pricing

What each one actually does

Cinder’s integration checks content hashes against StopNCII.org and routes matches for enforcement, on a platform that is already a StopNCII.org Industry Partner. Its own case study describes hash-matching and enforcement routing; it does not describe a public-facing notice-and-removal intake form, a 48-hour statutory clock, or a per-request evidence log tied to a TAKE IT DOWN Act request specifically. Pricing is by sales contact, not published.

TrustDesk builds the artifacts the statute itself names: a hosted victim-facing intake form, the 48-hour removal clock PL 119-12 §3 requires, identical-copy removal across the platform, and an evidence log of what was received and when it was acted on. $19 once for the kit you self-host, or $5 a month for the hosted desk.

What you compare on	TrustDesk	Cinder
Price	$19 once, or $5/month hosted	Contact sales, not published
Public intake form	Yes, hosted and linkable	Not described in Cinder’s own material
48-hour removal clock	Yes, tracked per request	Not described
Identical-copy detection	Manual across the platform, per the request	Yes, via StopNCII.org hash-matching, once you are a partner
Evidence log for the request	Yes, append-only	Not described for this specific duty
Prerequisite	None	Must already be a StopNCII.org Industry Partner

Which one is the right buy

A platform already running Cinder for broader trust and safety moderation, and already a StopNCII.org partner, gets hash-matching against a known-image database as part of that relationship. It is a real and useful capability, and it is a different thing than a notice-and-removal program: nothing in Cinder’s own material states the intake form, the clock or the log the statute requires a covered platform to have in place.

TrustDesk is built directly against those three requirements. The full compliance-software comparison covers every option, including StopNCII.org used directly and a law-firm client alert, on one table.

TrustDesk is not affiliated with Cinder or StopNCII.org. Everything above about Cinder is quoted from its own published material, read 4 September 2026 and linked so it can be checked directly; it changes without notice. Nothing here is legal advice.