Texas House Passes House Bill 366 Criminalizing Political Memes Without Disclaimers,

How stupid.

Wtf. Texas going full UK

I don’t like this. (R)’s should be for less gubment, not more.

I was told yesterday we need bigger government to fix things and then they promise they'll give up the power once things are fixed

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I was told yesterday we need bigger government to fix things and then they promise they'll give up the power once things are fixed

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Whoever said that is a walking around moron.

I thought Texas was full of badasses? Sounds like a bunch of sissy boys to me, and how are they going to prosecute this?

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Representative Dade Phelan and supported by House Speaker Dustin Burrows

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Who are these clowns? Y'all elected these bozos?

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The bill, led by Representative Dade Phelan and supported by House Speaker Dustin Burrows,

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What do you just search the Poli board waiting for that one piece of news you can clamp onto so you can be like “see see I told you so” lol and Of course you would have a gheeeyyy gif

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What do you just search the Poli board waiting for that one piece of news you can clamp onto so you can be like “see see I told you so” l

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I'm not. I'm giving much more detailed commentary in the ranked choice voting thread, for instance

Repost from the other thread started before this one and still on the same page:

Text of amendment :

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 255, Election Code, is amended by adding
Section 255.0015 to read as follows:
Sec. 255.0015. REQUIRED DISCLOSURE ON CERTAIN POLITICAL ADVERTISING CONTAINING ALTERED MEDIA; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) This section applies only to a person who:
(1) is an officeholder, candidate, or political committee;
(2) makes expenditures during a reporting period that in the aggregate exceed $100 for political advertising, other than an expense to cover the basic cost of hardware, messaging software, and bandwidth; or
(3) publishes, distributes, or broadcasts political advertising described by Subsection (b) in return for consideration.
(b) A person may not, with the intent to influence an election, knowingly cause to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, or video recording of an officeholder's or candidate's appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality, including an image, audio recording, or video recording that has been altered using generative artificial intelligence technology, unless the political advertising includes a disclosure from the person or another person on whose behalf the political advertising is published, distributed, or broadcast indicating that the image, audio recording, or video recording did not occur in reality.
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By law it only applies to an officeholder, candidate, or political committee.

And it sounds no different than requiring text similar to those medical ads where it states, “not a real doctor” when someone walks in wearing a lab coat with a stethoscope around their neck before delivering what sounds like a medical opinion.