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[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 129 points 2 months ago

Oh so a first amendment violation as a law.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

You thoughtless person, where’s the disclaimer?! I dislocated a rib laughing at this

Well, have you said thank you once?

/s

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[-] AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

pweese say tank you

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[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

You're right, where are my manners? Thanks for this wonderful gif.

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It actually sounds sane, but no, won't pass 1A muster in any court.

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/16787464

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[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago
  1. The law applies only to office holders, candidates, campaigns, or to people who buy or sell political advertising.
  2. People and platforms who post and distribute content without exchanging money are exempted.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. "Superficial" alterations are exempted from the notice message, for example, changing the color balance on a video.
[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 14 points 2 months ago

What does this actually accomplish then?

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Hard to say for sure, but probably more "fine print" style notices on TV ads and billboards.

This could conceivably be used to prosecute dirty tricks-style campaigns. For example, many years ago there was an anonymous mailer campaign against the incumbent mayor in my city where a photograph of him was photoshopped to insinuate that had been beaten up, when he really hadn't. That kind of thing might become the target of this if it becomes law.

It's also possible that federal courts will step in and carve out some exceptions for obviously fake parody stuff. Texas law cannot override the first amendment.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

A chilling effect and job security for lawyers.

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[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago

But will they face consequences?

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Honestly sounds reasonable to me. But it would be nice if they could include deterring that over dramatic black-and-white effect lol.

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[-] JustAThought@lemm.ee 53 points 2 months ago

It irks me when rich people will just pay the fine rather than following the law. Example: Parking in handicap spots and not caring about a $250 fine. It is like paying $5 parking fee for low income drivers.

Finland actually has speeding fines proportional to your income! In 2002, a Finnish millionaire was fined €103,000 (over $100,000 USD at the time) for going 75 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. (47mph in a 32mph zone)

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Like the Tesla in New York City which has racked up $38,000 worth of parking tickets?

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[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago
[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago

I can tell this is fake. Trump would have bigger moobs.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

The horse would also have snapped in half.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

"My moobs are the biggest, most beautiful moobs in the world. Skinny Joe Biden wishes he had moobs like mine."

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[-] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

This one time Nazguls tried to look like humans.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Damn, from democracy to lèse-majesté in 100 ~~months~~ days, congrats guys!

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Oops, you're right. 100 months will be the length of Trump's second term.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Do you really think his body will hold out for that long?

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[-] Etterra@discuss.online 27 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

And so, the era of the illegal meme dealer has begun

About time

[-] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

Pssssst... Hey buddy. You looking for some memes? I got the good stuff...

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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"

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

Disclaimer: Go fuck yourselves.

[-] griff@lemmings.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

base fines on income as Finland does for traffic violations

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

The rich can always find ways around the law, including income-based fines. See the death of singer Kirsty McColl.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Lol. Have fun trying to enforce that while real crimes are happening.

Texas set to overtake Florida for America's redheaded stepchild.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

As always with these laws, they are a tool designed to be used selectively against someone you already decided you don't like.

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Holy shit I didn't know he was part of a gang

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

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[-] GhostPain@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Specific to the fine: unless it scales with net worth/income.

Also, fuck Republicans.

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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"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

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[-] xorollo@leminal.space 5 points 2 months ago

I thought that was some sort of weird cyberpunk monocle 🙀

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Ms13 is everywhere they even alter images with their art department mspaint

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Who are they going to pay to evaluate all the damn memes on the internet? What counts as alteration? Resizing, cropping, other basic photo manipulations that people use all the time? Has a politician ever used images of themselves without touch up?

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Is that as high as he can count?

…11, 12, 13, man, camera, tv, Putin….

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That penis was actually there, not interpreted, don't do this. The penis was tattooed right on his face.

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