Reworked Phelan Meme Ban to END Texas Politics
A situation they don’t want you to monitor.
Many people are saying the Texas House passing Dade Phelan’s meme ban will end political memes, but will there be unintended consequences? It’s the slippery slope, of course, but it also gives Representatives the opportunity to leave their legacy as someone who chipped away at free speech in their own little way.
Regarding sharing memes, the latest version of the Meme Ban appears to only apply to officeholders, candidates, and PACs. This will mean people who file reports with the TEC. Not your grandma, or whoever Phelan is trying to keep from seeing and sharing these memes.
The latest version of Meme Ban differs in scope from his first version, which targeted everyone like a neutron bomb for free speech.
We originally published the following meme 296 days before Dade Phelan filed his infamous meme ban.
We regret meming this into reality, but life is all about your attitude, and we can always choose to be happy and choose to look on the funny side of things.
The new bill states the following:
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,
A candidate can not post an image that includes their appearance *if their appearance did not occur in reality* and was enhanced by AI tools?
Many people are saying they have complaints ready to be filed on day 1 after meeting certain lawmakers in real life after seeing their photos online.
In fact, there are many tools available online to analyze images and determine if they may have been altered. One very top lawmaker we looked at even had the software signature on the file.
On the advice of all the women in our lives, we are electing to forego getting into specific examples of this soon-to-be criminal behavior of using AI to enhance your looks.
If Texas is going to regulate speech, it should be in the funniest and most confusing way possible.
This will be weaponized against Republicans. Funny you get more jail time for a meme than creating election systems that fraud can't be detected on. You can't punish electoral fraud if you can't detect it. Sneaky snakes.
They seem to be worried about the "intent to influence an election" a lot in recent years. Whether it's the Russia hoax, the meme Douglas Mackey created telling dumb Hillary voters they could text their votes, or now AI-generated memes about the political class. It's almost like they're trying to gain a monopoly on influencing elections. If the problem is electoral deception, then all the sitting politicians should be charged first. Here's another idea: we should go back to having standards about who can vote. Those who can't be as easily deceived as the general masses should be the ones deciding who gets power in America.