Video streaming platform Rumble has filed a lawsuit against California over a law forcing social media platforms to censor political speech.
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), representing Rumble, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday.
The Daily Wire reports:
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Sacramento Division. Rumble is challenging California’s latest laws punishing speakers for certain political commentary, which California Governor Gavin Newsom has framed as measures that will combat the “harmful use of deepfakes in political ads and other content.”
California’s AB 2655, the “Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024,” “deputizes” Rumble to restrict its user’s speech, ADF said in a release, while AB 2839, “Protecting Democracy Against Election Disinformation and Deepfakes,” uses vague standards to punish individuals posting political content about elections.
ADF Senior Counsel Phil Sechler told the outlet, “California’s war against political speech is censorship, plain and simple. We can’t trust the government to decide what is true in our online political debates.”
“Rumble is one of the few online voices stepping up against this trend of censorship while other platforms and sites cave to totalitarian regimes censoring Americans,”