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Courts keep striking down California laws infringing on free speech, gun rights

Federal Judge John Mendez struck down California laws regulating deepfakes, ruling last week that AB 2839 restricts free speech by banning deepfake material near elections.
This ruling came after an earlier court decision a month ago that struck down AB 2655 on the grounds that it conflicted with the federal law granting platforms protection from liability related to user-generated content.
Assembly Bill 2655, which mandates that social media platforms either block or label AI-generated fictional content, faced legal challenges from Babylon Bee and X, who claimed the law violated free speech rights.
Judge Mendez acknowledged that while deepfakes present serious threats to the integrity of elections, government authorities cannot control or censor political expression in advance, just as they are prohibited from regulating comedic content.
Separate federal rulings recently struck down California's restrictive gun laws based on U.S. Supreme Court precedents, with Gov. Newsom denouncing these judges as industry toadies amid ongoing political efforts to regulate online content.

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Courts keep striking down California laws infringing on free speech, gun rights

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