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.
Just going to point out that Trump’s Army won the meme war of 2024, the left can’t meme. With the passing of this bill all a leftist has to do is bring a case to a leftist activist judge in order to shut a candidate down. The left only has to bring an accusation against the candidate, it doesn’t have to be true in order for a judge to give an injunction against the candidate from running ANY AD, and therefore shutting their campaign down. If you don’t think we have leftist activist judges in Texas, I’ll refer you to Lena Hildago aka Dora the Explorer of Fort Bend County as well as K P George, also of Fort Bend County.