No, I am not joking. Gavin Newsom is bragging about it. Parody videos about politicians are now illegal. 

I just signed a bill to make this illegal in the state of California.

You can no longer knowingly distribute an ad or other election communications that contain materially deceptive content -- including deepfakes. https://t.co/VU4b8RBf6N

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 17, 2024

Babylon Bee, watch out. 

Newsom's brag about banning parody videos refers specifically to one shared by Elon Musk, who shared it again as a big F-U to Governor Gavin:

The governor of California just made this parody video illegal in violation of the Constitution of the United States.

Would be a shame if it went viral. https://t.co/OCBewC4vOb

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 18, 2024

It is shocking how quickly the attack on free speech has rolled out over the past couple of years. Initially the attack was through proxies--bullying social media sites to suppress speech disliked by the government and private "misinformation" specialists funded through the government. 

So I assume that Kamala Harris’s campaign account will be indicted immediately? https://t.co/fBCZOQNflc

— (((Charlie Martin))) (@chasrmartin) September 18, 2024

Now, governments around the world are literally criminalizing speech. In the UK, they are jailing people for Facebook posts and even "likes," talking about extraditing Americans for their social media posts and labeling people terrorists for rather anodyne speech. 

It is astonishing to me that a major American political party has embraced censorship of otherwise legal speech as a central tenet of its ideology. I never thought such a day would come, but here we are. https://t.co/OYnx0tnRFF

— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) September 18, 2024

California's law is one more step toward creating an American Stasi. Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Hillary Clinton have all endorsed silencing Americans and using the power of the government to do it. 

“People who spread false information should be charged criminally” -election denier who shared info from a discredited dossier that her opponent was a Russian asset https://t.co/MpwyKpc0tG

— Razor (@hale_razor) September 17, 2024

The Democrats' entire campaign this year (and last) is based on provable hoaxes, whether it is the "fine people" hoax, the "bloodbath hoax," the "injecting bleach" hoax, or any number of other known lies. Imagine if these people were in charge in 2020--the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story wouldn't just have been silenced; it might have been criminalized. 

Kamala: I will direct the DOJ to censor "misinformation and hate" online

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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 5, 2024

Too many people believe, naively, that "it couldn't happen here." Yet the Democrats and their media minions are openly calling for precisely this. It's not a hidden agenda. It is right there out in the open. 

What Brazil now is, America could easily become—if we’re not careful.

If you want your freedom of speech restricted based on what woke progressives deem “in the public interest,” you should definitely vote for Harris-Walz. https://t.co/DPOiMO6cAK

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) September 3, 2024

It is shocking to me how quickly the left transformed from a center-left party into what amounts to a fascist one. Fascism is characterized by close ties between corporations and government, speech control, authoritarianism, and generally militarism. Pretty much what the Democrats push, now that the Democrats are the pro-war party. 

The one thing missing is nationalism since their vision is profoundly transnational, although there is a transparent racialist element to their appeal, although surprisingly anti-white racialism. If fascism came to America, one would have predicted that it would be driven by white identitarianism, but it turns out that CRT and "antiracism" are how it is being introduced. 

Still, here we are. Speech is being criminalized, and the Harris/Walz team is promising to make these efforts go nationwide. 

HOLY SH!T

Governor Tim Walz: NO RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH if the government decides it is misinformation or hateful

This man is a dangerous commie pic.twitter.com/hE8xGcRx87

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 7, 2024

Chances are that the Supreme Court will strike down bans on speech, but in the meantime, people will be intimidated and perhaps prosecuted for sharing parodies. They will spend thousands of dollars and hours defending themselves against an unconstitutional ban on their speech, and we can't count on the Democrats to stop trying to shut us up by any means necessary. 

When someone says an authoritarian politician won't censor the average person, what he means is, he won't censor ME because my language is pure. This is historical idiocy. Happens over and over, every 100 years or so. https://t.co/Qu5xcoCHiW

— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) September 18, 2024

Look at Biden and his efforts to cancel student loans. No amount of Supreme Court rulings has forced him to stop trying to do something explicitly unconstitutional. The courts don't have the guns; the executive branch has all the enforcement powers. 

I don't know about you, but I find this frightening.