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Comment by David Loy

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Legal director, First Amendment Coalition
not the business of the government to use the force of law to punish speech [...] true or false. [...] significant First Amendment problems
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[🇪🇸 Congreso, May 2024] Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns
votes Against
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AI Verified The quote is not about the Spanish proposal specifically, but it clearly states opposition to using criminal law to punish speech and says such laws raise major constitutional/free-speech problems. That directly implies opposition to criminalizing deepfakes or AI-generated campaign speech. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago
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AI Verified The quote says it is "not the business of the government to use the force of law to punish speech" and warns of "significant First Amendment problems," which clearly opposes criminalizing this kind of campaign-related expression. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago
[🇺🇸 Congress, Mar 2025] Prohibiting deceptive AI-generated media of federal election candidates
votes Against
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition: it says government should not "use the force of law to punish speech" whether it is "true or false" and raises "significant First Amendment problems," which directly covers a law banning deceptive AI-generated election media. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago
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AI Verified The quote says it is "not the business of the government to use the force of law to punish speech" and warns of "significant First Amendment problems," which clearly opposes this kind of prohibition. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago

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AI Verified Business Insider’s article at the provided URL contains the quote attributed to David Loy. It includes his statement that it is “not the business of the government” to punish speech based on what government thinks is “true or false,” and separately says the law has “significant First Amendment problems.” The stored author, date (2025-05-02), source URL, and quoted content are consistent with the source. ([businessinsider.com](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-x-lawsuit-minnesota-deepfake-law-constitutional-problems-2025-5)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago
Disputed Business Insider’s May 2, 2025 article does attribute both statements to David Loy, and AOL/Yahoo syndications match it: he is quoted with a sentence beginning “not the business of the government...” and BI then separately reports that he said the law has “significant First Amendment problems.” But the submitted quote reverses that order and stitches the two statements together with an ellipsis, so it is not verbatim as presented. ([businessinsider.com](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-x-lawsuit-minnesota-deepfake-law-constitutional-problems-2025-5)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Unverifiable Source_url is a Business Insider article (2025-05); Claude Code is blocked from fetching businessinsider.com, and the dnyuz.com and yahoo.com syndications of the same article ("Constitutional law experts don't always agree with Elon Musk — but on X's deepfake lawsuit, some do") both returned HTTP 403. Web search corroborated the first clause verbatim: David Loy, legal director of the First Amendment Coalition, said the Minnesota deepfake law has "significant First Amendment problems." Author attribution (Loy, First Amendment Coalition legal director) and year (2025) are confirmed. The second clause (government shouldn't "use the force of law to punish speech ... true or false") is consistent with Loy's documented First Amendment position but I could not fetch the page to confirm it verbatim. Vote alignment is correct: Loy opposes the Minnesota deepfake election law on free-speech grounds, so the "against" vote on "Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns" matches his stance. Marking ai_unverifiable because the source and all syndications block fetching. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 8d ago
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