Should ‘Photoshop Bill’ Get Lawmakers’ Nod?
Critics say a bill aimed at making Photoshop bullying a crime tramples on citizens’ right to free speech. Tell us what you think of the bill.
Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it a crime to impose someone’s face onto an obscene depiction. To put that simply: “Photoshopping” or digitally altering an obscene image by putting another person’s face on it would become illegal. Someone did just that after the filing of House Bill 39 in the Georgia General Assembly. Andre Walker of the Georgia Politics Unfiltered blog explained in a Feb. 11 post why he took the photo of the body of a male porn star and pasted onto it the face of State Rep. Earnest Smith, D-Augusta, one of the bill’s sponsors: I would simply remind Representative Smith that he's a public figure, and just like someone had the protected right to depict former President George W. Bush as a monkey, I …
Pam J
10:51 am on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Just make it legal to sue (and win) the party that put your head on something else. Make it automatic. $1M payment. That may make people think twice. more ›