; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Definitions. Sec. 4. Severability clause. TITLE I—Regulating the uploading of pornographic images to online platforms Sec. 101. Verification obligations of covered platform operators. Sec. 102. Removal of images distributed without consent. Sec. 103. Obligations of users. TITLE II—Enforcement Sec. 201. Civil enforcement. Sec. 202. Criminal prohibition on nonconsensual distribution of intimate visual depictions. 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In the United States, reports of child sexual abuse material (referred to in this section as CSAM ) have grown exponentially in recent years, from 3,000 reports in 1998 to more than 1,000,000 in 2014 and 18,400,000 in 2018. The New York Times called it an almost unfathomable increase in criminal behavior. (2) The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (referred to in this section as NCMEC ), which is based in the United States, recorded more than 29,300,000 reports of suspected CSAM to its CyberTipline in 2021, the highest number of reports ever received in a single year and a 35 percent increase from 2020. Those reports included 85,000,000 images, videos, and other files of suspected CSAM and incident-related content. (3) Recent trends reported by NCMEC include increasingly graphic and violent sexual abuse images, and videos of infants and young children. (4) The Daily, a podcast hosted by the New York Times, reported in 2019 that CSAM had so overwhelmed law enforcement agencies in the United States that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for example, had prioritized investigating material depicting infants and toddlers, not older children. (5) The COVID–19 pandemic has resulted in a surge in the online distribution of CSAM, which was remarkably high even before the pandemic. During the pandemic, NCMEC reported a 106-percent increase in the sharing of CSAM globally. The increased number of offenders exchanging CSAM during lockdowns has continued to stimulate demand for CSAM beyond the lockdowns. (6)