No Laughing Allowed

No satire in California:

According to a report from The Daily Wire, the complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and notes that Newsom tweeted that a parody video of Kamala Harris should be “illegal.” “The legislature heard the call and passed two laws that forbid political expression under the label of ‘materially deceptive content,’” the lawsuit asserts. According to the complaint, one of California’s new laws will require social media platforms to notify the state with “reports about user posts with ‘materially deceptive content’ and then remove or label them.” Newsom argued that the state’s laws focus on AI-generated content that could “undermine the public’s trust through disinformation.” However, the new law also requires satire and parody content to be clearly labeled or removed completely. Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said during a news podcast “Morning Wire” that the law targets satirists and their writers “by requiring them to put disclaimers to let you know that this is a parody that you’re reading right now – which completely stifles and kills the joke.” “If we’re unable to publish satire without putting disclaimers all over it, and we’re going to face potential penalties if we don’t do that, then that’s a very serious issue too,” Dillon said. “So we’re fighting back in every way that we can against laws that clamp down on speech.”

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