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Elon Musk's social platform X files lawsuit against Minnesota, challenging a law prohibiting the use of deepfakes to influence elections (www.mprnews.org)
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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 36 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

X’s lawsuit claims the law’s “requirements are so vague and unintelligible that social media platforms cannot understand what the statute permits and what it prohibits.”

Vague, overly broad laws are indeed a problem; I’m willing to give him that. ONLY that.

Unfortunately for Musk, this is not vague. If the footage is something you created or manipulated, you know perfectly damn well whether it’s legal or not. He’s trying to confuse the issue, and conflate fraud with free speech. Hopefully, the court will see right through him.

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Easy solution would be for the state to show up with an AI generated video of him giving an explanation as to why he (Elon) has no clue what he is talking about and this is obviously the greatest law ever.

Or maybe take the opposite stance…lol

[–] _core@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago

The easier solution is to say that since it's too hard for X to do, X doesn't get to operate anymore and shut X down.