By Bob Walsh
U. S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez
Poor Gavin must be positively
suicidal. U. S. District Court Judge John A. Mendez just put the kibosh
on Gavin's latest legislative child, AB 2839, just signed into law.
The
law is/was allegedly aimed at protecting the public from deep fake
misinformation. In reality it was mostly aimed at quelching satire and
dissent prior to elections..
Judge
Mendez wrote that the fear of digitally manipulated media landscape
"does not give legislators unbridled license to bulldoze over the
longstanding tradition of critique, parody and satire protected by the
First Amendment."
Existing law already prohibits "materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate" within 60 days of an election.
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