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Comment by Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
Free speech civil liberties nonprofit
This bill doesn't meet that bar. It restricts far more speech than necessary to prevent voters from being deceived in ways that would have any effect on an election, and there are other ways to address deepfakes that would burden much less speech.
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(2025)
1d ago
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Verification History
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Newly added recent (2025) companion quote to the older 2024 FIRE opinion. Quote: "This bill doesn't meet that bar. It restricts far more speech than necessary to prevent voters from being deceived in ways that would have any effect on an election, and there are other ways to address deepfakes that would burden much less speech." attributed to FIRE, 2025, source_url = thefire.org "FIRE opposes Virginia's proposed regulation of candidate deepfakes" (published 14 Feb 2025, re: Virginia SB 775 / HB 2479). WebFetch returned HTTP 403, but a web search confirmed this verbatim quote and date, with FIRE opposing the bill that would criminalize sharing AI-generated candidate deepfakes to influence an election. Author attribution correct (FIRE's own statement). Vote alignment correct: FIRE opposes criminalizing election deepfakes, so the vote is AGAINST the statement "Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns"; recorded vote is "against". Added alongside (not replacing) the verified 2024 FIRE quote.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 1d ago
replying to Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)