Legal Insurrection wrote about HLLI’s lawsuit for YouTube and X creator, “Mr Reagan” in defense of parody, satire, and free speech.
“These measures will help to combat the harmful use of deepfakes in political ads and other content,” Newsom announced.
But they will also make dissemination of “Mr. Reagan’s” parody videos actionable, his lawyers say, and require social media companies to censor them.
Those videos—the express target of the new laws—are political speech protected by the First Amendment, they argue. In his lawsuit filed by the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute (HLLI), Christopher Kohls (aka “Mr. Reagan”) challenges two of the statutes, AB 2655 and AB 2839. His lawyers ask the court to declare the laws unconstitutional and block their enforcement.
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