Deep Fakes

"Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Deep Fakes and Free Speech Delusions' by Mary Anne Franks and Ari Ezra Waldman in (2019) 78 Maryland Law Review comments

The longstanding position of civil libertarians that harmful speech should generally be tolerated instead of regulated is based on three interrelated claims about free speech. One is that an unfettered “marketplace of ideas” ultimately leads to the discovery of truth. The second, closely related to the first, is that harmful speech is always best addressed through counterspeech rather than regulation. The third is that even well-intentioned and modest regulations of speech will ultimately be used to silence minority or dissident voices. Whatever merit these claims may have had in the past, they cannot be sustained in the digital age. Unbridled, unlimited free speech rights, especially in an era of technologically mediated expression, have led to the disintegration of truth, the reign of unanswerable speech, and the silencing and self-censorship of women, queer people, persons of color, and other racial and ethnic minorities.