Neil I. Patel

There's some things that we absolutely want to forbid, but if we let that get too wide, we're going to start running into people's everyday speech. We're going to start running into absolutely constitutionally protected speech, like documentaries, like news reporting. That's pretty blurry. And I think the audience here, you should sit with that because that is pretty blurry.

There's some things that we absolutely want to forbid, but if we let that get too wide, we're going to start running into people's everyday speech. We're going to start running into absolutely constitutionally protected speech, like documentaries, like news reporting. That's pretty blurry. And I think the audience here, you should sit with that because that is pretty blurry.

On the flip side, there are two bills in Congress right now that purport to restrict on this stuff. There's something called the No Fakes Act, which is Chris Coons, Marsha Blackburn, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Tillis.

On the flip side, there are two bills in Congress right now that purport to restrict on this stuff. There's something called the No Fakes Act, which is Chris Coons, Marsha Blackburn, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Tillis.

On the flip side, there are two bills in Congress right now that purport to restrict on this stuff. There's something called the No Fakes Act, which is Chris Coons, Marsha Blackburn, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Tillis.

And then after the Taylor Swift situation on X, there's something called the Defiance Act, which stands for the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, which is quite a lot of words. Do they go towards solving the problem? Do you see differences there? Do you see them as being an effective approach?

And then after the Taylor Swift situation on X, there's something called the Defiance Act, which stands for the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, which is quite a lot of words. Do they go towards solving the problem? Do you see differences there? Do you see them as being an effective approach?

And then after the Taylor Swift situation on X, there's something called the Defiance Act, which stands for the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, which is quite a lot of words. Do they go towards solving the problem? Do you see differences there? Do you see them as being an effective approach?

That is the likeness law approach to it, which has big problems of its own. Another approach we've heard about on Decoder is rooted in defamation law. So Barack Obama was on Decoder. He said there are different rules for public figures than 13-year-old girls. We're going to treat them differently. We should have different rules for what you can do with a public figure than teenagers.

That is the likeness law approach to it, which has big problems of its own. Another approach we've heard about on Decoder is rooted in defamation law. So Barack Obama was on Decoder. He said there are different rules for public figures than 13-year-old girls. We're going to treat them differently. We should have different rules for what you can do with a public figure than teenagers.

That is the likeness law approach to it, which has big problems of its own. Another approach we've heard about on Decoder is rooted in defamation law. So Barack Obama was on Decoder. He said there are different rules for public figures than 13-year-old girls. We're going to treat them differently. We should have different rules for what you can do with a public figure than teenagers.

We should have different rules for what is clearly political commentary and satire versus cyberbullying. And then Senator Brian Schatz was recently on and he said something similar. Is defamation where this goes? Where it's, hey, you made a deep fake of me. Maybe it's my likeness. But you're actually defaming my character. And you did it on purpose.

We should have different rules for what is clearly political commentary and satire versus cyberbullying. And then Senator Brian Schatz was recently on and he said something similar. Is defamation where this goes? Where it's, hey, you made a deep fake of me. Maybe it's my likeness. But you're actually defaming my character. And you did it on purpose.

We should have different rules for what is clearly political commentary and satire versus cyberbullying. And then Senator Brian Schatz was recently on and he said something similar. Is defamation where this goes? Where it's, hey, you made a deep fake of me. Maybe it's my likeness. But you're actually defaming my character. And you did it on purpose.

And that rises to the level of you knowingly telling a lie about me. And defamation law is what's going to punish you for this instead of some law about my likeness.

And that rises to the level of you knowingly telling a lie about me. And defamation law is what's going to punish you for this instead of some law about my likeness.

And that rises to the level of you knowingly telling a lie about me. And defamation law is what's going to punish you for this instead of some law about my likeness.

One thing we constantly say here at The Verge is that copyright law is the only real law on the internet because it's the only speech regulation that everyone just kind of accepts. Defamation law is not a speech regulation that everyone just accepts. It has boundaries. The cases go back and forth. The idea that there should be a federal right to likeness doesn't even exist yet.

One thing we constantly say here at The Verge is that copyright law is the only real law on the internet because it's the only speech regulation that everyone just kind of accepts. Defamation law is not a speech regulation that everyone just accepts. It has boundaries. The cases go back and forth. The idea that there should be a federal right to likeness doesn't even exist yet.

One thing we constantly say here at The Verge is that copyright law is the only real law on the internet because it's the only speech regulation that everyone just kind of accepts. Defamation law is not a speech regulation that everyone just accepts. It has boundaries. The cases go back and forth. The idea that there should be a federal right to likeness doesn't even exist yet.