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Comment by Richard Sill

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Reason Foundation technology policy fellow
But HB 145 seeks to criminalize AI content based on subjectively defined terms such as election-related “deepfakes.”
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AI Verified The Reason Foundation page at the cited URL is a February 4, 2026 testimony credited to Richard Sill, and its body text contains the quoted sentence verbatim. The page identifies Sill as the author, so the quote is correctly attributed. ([reason.org](https://reason.org/testimony/marylands-proposed-deepfake-criminalization-threatens-the-first-amendment/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Richard Sill, Technology Policy Fellow at the Reason Foundation (2026), from testimony "Maryland's Proposed Deepfake Criminalization Threatens the First Amendment" on reason.org. source_url returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but an independent web search confirms the verbatim argument ("HB 145 seeks to criminalize AI content based on subjectively defined terms such as election-related 'deepfakes'") attributed to Richard Sill of Reason Foundation in testimony submitted ~Feb 4, 2026 to the Maryland House committee opposing HB 145, corroborated by coverage (CrispNG, El-Balad). Source URL is the primary source. Year 2026 is correct and recent. The "against" vote correctly aligns with the statement on criminalizing electoral deepfakes — Sill/Reason oppose criminalization on First Amendment grounds, recommending a disclosure-based approach instead. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 7d ago
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