Political Memes

Oh so a first amendment violation as a law.

1. The law applies only to office holders, candidates, campaigns, or to people who buy or sell political advertising.
2. People and platforms who post and distribute content without exchanging money are exempted.
3. All the big media firms: tv, radio, ISPs, Internet content platforms, and billboard operators are exempted when they just run someone else's ads. The people who are liable are the ones who place the ads.
4. The requirement is to include a disclosure message when depictions of a public figure have been altered by technology: Photoshop, AI, deepfake audio, or whatever else. The content itself is not censored, it just has to be noticed that it's artificial.
5. "Superficial" alterations are exempted from the notice message, for example, changing the color balance on a video.

It irks me when rich people will just pay the fine rather than following the law. Example: Parking in handicap spots and not caring about a $250 fine. It is like paying $5 parking fee for low income drivers.

Finland actually has speeding fines proportional to your income! In 2002, a Finnish millionaire was fined €103,000 (over $100,000 USD at the time) for going 75 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. (47mph in a 32mph zone)

Come at me bro!

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Damn, from democracy to lèse-majesté in 100 ~~months~~ days, congrats guys!

I'll say it until I'm dead: fines need to be calculated by income and net worth, increasing exponentially. The only way for a fine to act as a deterrent is for it to cost more relative to a person or company's ability to pay it.

And so, the era of the illegal meme dealer has begun

About time

Disclaimer: Go fuck yourselves.

base fines on income as Finland does for traffic violations

For the filthy rich, the ONLY penalty is very often a fine, and it's a very small one proportionate to the profit they made from the crime. It's the cost of doing business.

The filthy rich only do jail time if they bilked other filthy rich people out of their money.

Lol. Have fun trying to enforce that while real crimes are happening.

Texas set to overtake Florida for America's redheaded stepchild.

Holy shit I didn't know he was part of a gang

I thought that was some sort of weird cyberpunk monocle 🙀

"herp derp jerb creators deserve to be above the law!"

What our robber barons have convinced many to most Americans to believe to spin their greed disease into being somehow noble, and what those robber barons unreflectively believe about themselves.

There are developed nations, which we most certainly are not, that literally prorate vehicular fines as a percentage of income. We would never do that here, because this shithole, including tens of millions of self-hating, deluded fools, believe the person that exploits thousands of laborers for private profit deserves to risk your life doing 90 on main street on the basis of their successful exploitation.

https://www.mic.com/articles/79039/the-untold-story-of-alice-walton-s-dwi-incident

Specific to the fine: unless it scales with net worth/income.

Also, fuck Republicans.

Too bad I don't live in Texas, and fuck you Texas, what are you going to do?

Ms13 is everywhere they even alter images with their art department mspaint

Who are they going to pay to evaluate all the damn memes on the internet? What counts as alteration? Resizing, cropping, other basic photo manipulations that people use all the time? Has a politician ever used images of themselves without touch up?

That penis was actually there, not interpreted, don't do this. The penis was tattooed right on his face.