Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“In the endless battle to protect our freedom of speech, the forces for good can chalk up another victory, this one out in California. The Golden State government has been trying to impose censorship on so-called ‘deep-fake’ videos by forcing social-media platforms to find and eliminate ‘materially deceptive content’ about incumbents and candidates. Platforms like Twitter‑X and Rumble contend that the law would compel them to act as government censors. … A district judge, John Mendez, recently stated in court that since platforms are protected from being punished for third-party content under the Communications Decency Act, the California law seeking to punish platforms that fail to remove ‘deep-fake’ political criticism on behalf of pusillanimous pols is dead on arrival.” (08/12/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/08/12/satire-censorship-doa/