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Video-sharing platform Rumble has filed a lawsuit against California over a state law that regulates how platforms handle videos with AI-created ‘deepfakes,’ claiming it violates the First Amendment.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed the lawsuit on behalf of Rumble and Rumble Canada.
“California recently passed two laws that target and punish speakers for posting certain political commentary online. One of those laws, AB 2655, also requires large online platforms like Rumble to act as the government’s censorship police and remove such content from their sites,” ADF stated in a press release.
“California is forcing Rumble to alter its speech and censor its users’ speech, while also compelling the platform’s speech, in violation of the First Amendment,” it added.
“California’s war against political speech is censorship, plain and simple. We can’t trust the government to decide what is true in our online political debates,” said ADF Senior Counsel Phil Sechler.
“Rumble is one of the few online voices stepping up against this trend of censorship while other platforms and sites cave to totalitarian regimes censoring Americans. Rumble is standing for free speech even when it is hard. Other online platforms and media companies must see these laws for what they are—a threat to their existence,” Sechler added…
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