- The law applies only to office holders, candidates, campaigns, or to people who buy or sell political advertising.
- People and platforms who post and distribute content without exchanging money are exempted.
- All the big media firms: tv, radio, ISPs, Internet content platforms, and billboard operators are exempted when they just run someone else’s ads. The people who are liable are the ones who place the ads.
- The requirement is to include a disclosure message when depictions of a public figure have been altered by technology: Photoshop, AI, deepfake audio, or whatever else. The content itself is not censored, it just has to be noticed that it’s artificial.
- “Superficial” alterations are exempted from the notice message, for example, changing the color balance on a video.
Come at me bro!
I’ll say it until I’m dead: fines need to be calculated by income and net worth, increasing exponentially. The only way for a fine to act as a deterrent is for it to cost more relative to a person or company’s ability to pay it.
Lol. Have fun trying to enforce that while real crimes are happening.
Texas set to overtake Florida for America’s redheaded stepchild.
The trick is, they don’t really care about enforcing it - just having it as a potential charge to pursue when they hate someone.
This just in: Breathing is illegal. They’ll only bother prosecuting critics of Trump though.
As always with these laws, they are a tool designed to be used selectively against someone you already decided you don’t like.
And so, the era of the illegal meme dealer has begun
About time
shady guy opens trenchcoat
“I got spicy, i got deep-fried, I’ve even got some rage comics if you’re old enough to remember em. $375 for a ½ gig, $700 for a full gig”
For the filthy rich, the ONLY penalty is very often a fine, and it’s a very small one proportionate to the profit they made from the crime. It’s the cost of doing business.
The filthy rich only do jail time if they bilked other filthy rich people out of their money.
Ms13 is everywhere they even alter images with their art department mspaint
That penis was actually there, not interpreted, don’t do this. The penis was tattooed right on his face.
Specific to the fine: unless it scales with net worth/income.
Also, fuck Republicans.
“herp derp jerb creators deserve to be above the law!”
What our robber barons have convinced many to most Americans to believe to spin their greed disease into being somehow noble, and what those robber barons unreflectively believe about themselves.
There are developed nations, which we most certainly are not, that literally prorate vehicular fines as a percentage of income. We would never do that here, because this shithole, including tens of millions of self-hating, deluded fools, believe the person that exploits thousands of laborers for private profit deserves to risk your life doing 90 on main street on the basis of their successful exploitation.
https://www.mic.com/articles/79039/the-untold-story-of-alice-walton-s-dwi-incident
The very definition of neo-liberalism: neo-feudalism. They can do whatever they want. Rules are for us, the serfs, not for them.
