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.
And....this is the Whole Point! The dems don't care if someone goes to prison or not but only to cast doubt and delay till it no longer matters and their next PUPPET IS IN PLACE!!
While I respect your argument, if you follow it to its logical conclusion, then ANY law could be abused for lawfare. So why have laws at all?
I’m sorry, I’m not an anarchist, and I believe that we need laws to protect our rights.
I believe that if I run for office, my opponent shouldn’t be able to pay to distribute an AI generated video of me in a Nazi uniform.
This bill doesn’t even stop my opponent from doing that, it just requires that she add a disclaimer.
I’m sorry, there’s just too many points that the prosecution must prove for this bill to be anything more than political theater.
While I understand the fear (especially considering what Bidan did over the past 4 years), I’ve found it’s typically counterproductive to make decisions based on emotions (especially fear).