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If you’re skeptical that the 1st Amendment is important and worth defending even for people whose views your find despicable, recommend two documentaries:

If you’re skeptical that the 1st Amendment is important and worth defending even for people whose views your find despicable, recommend two documentaries:

https://www.pbs.org/video/floyd-abrams-speaking-freely-x7eahq/

https://www.mightyira.com/

the first Amendment not include purposeful deception that causes harm, such as fraud, false advertising, defamation, perjury, or incitement to violence. these have been legally ruled as falling outside first amendment protections because they serve no legitimate public interest and can lead to harm.

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Misinformation and parody -- i.e. deepfakes -- are protected by 1st Amendment and current case law? You would have to prove a higher standard like fraud or actual malice. California doesn't get to decide this. It's not how our legal system works.

Here are the citations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alvarez (falsity)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell (parody)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_malice

thats what i was basically asking you with the conflation of first amendment rights and the thing gavin newsom signed. (this type of) deception isn't covered under first amendment rights. so yes first amendment rights are super important but also they're not under attack ? idk i just feel like that's not clear