This bill is nothing more than an advertising regulation to prevent politicos from spreading known deep fakes without a disclaimer.
There is NOTHING that prevents ANYONE from posting ANYTHING ANYWHERE.
The only change is that IF you're a political candidate (or in office, or a PAC), and IF you decide that you want to use fake AI shit in your PAID ADVERTISING, you must include a disclaimer.
Read the bill for yourself, and see if if I'm wrong (I'm not): https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB366/2025
Now, if you got all up in arms believing that HB 366 was going to "criminalize political memes", it's time for you to reevaluate who you listen to, because they just propagandized you, and you fell for it.
We're in an information war, and without discernment and critical thought, you're just further contributing to the chaos.
Dade Phelan aka Paid Felon is a very poorly cloaked RINO. As speaker he was drunk while conducting House business on the floor and Paxton called him out on it. That’s when they went after Paxton. The new speaker is Burrows and he was literally elected by democrats and RINOS. Texas is not well and while this bill may look good on the surface we all know damn good and well how this will play out.
Dade Felon is absolutely a piece of ripe stinky shit. Burrows, too.
I’m not talking about them, I’m talking about the bill.
Did you bother reading it? Explain how exactly you believe this will “play out”?
Who decides if an ad has AI being used? What happens to a person if they are accused of using AI before a judge weighs in?
Look man, as much as I wish I could, I cannot think for you. Read the bill. It’s barely a page long.
Subsection (b) reads “…with the intent to influence an election”. That means the government, in order to secure a conviction, must PROVE INTENT to influence an election. Do you realize how hard it is to prove intent?
Basically, the government would need evidence like emails, phone calls, or text messages proving that the person posted it in order to influence an election.
Outside of evidence like that, there’s no proof of intent, therefore no crime.
So in order to be convicted, the following must ALL be true:
So even with all of that, you just have to add the stupid disclaimer and you’re golden.
If anything, this bill is red herring and I’d bet a couple thousand bucks that no one will ever be convicted under this bill.
Do you realize how easy it is to bring a case? And in doing so shut the person up that posted the meme until the case is heard? I’m more than capable of reading, but I also have seen how our justice system has been weaponized as of late. While this may be a difficult case to prove, it’s not too difficult to envision how it would be weaponized by the left.
Downvoting me doesn’t make me wrong. Refute my points, coward.