U.S. Supreme Court,
Government
Jun. 20, 2019
Federal law is inadequate to address ‘deep fakes’
It is encouraging that the House Intelligence Committee is currently holding hearings on the problem and has issued a warning that they could have a disastrous effect on the 2020 election. But the owners and operators of social media platforms must act now, and not wait for the federal government to act.
John H. Minan
Emeritus Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
Professor Minan is a former attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and the former chairman of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Board.
In Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730 (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court addressed for the first time the relationship between the First Amendment and social-networking websites. It invalidated a North Carolina statute that restricted convicted sex offenders from having access to social-networking websites, including Facebook. The court reasoned that un...
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