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Look, you're a bright guy but even you thought this was all a Biden administration policy. What about the folks who aren't so bright? - CO
Each will decide for thmsleves using whatever information sources they deem credible.
I mean, why, exactly, should someone on Facebook or Twitter with a broad audience be able to post lies or disinformation that endanger lives? - more CO
Because to do otherwise requires a ministry of truth. And "endangering lives" is getting a little road weary, it is a way to gather authority when people are not in fact dropping like flies.
Simple example: I have a relative who wore nicotine patches for two weeks because she was convinced (by social media accounts online) that individuals vaccinated by the mRNA vaccine shed the vaccine (not the virus, the vaccine) in public and will contaminate her. Somehow, the nicotine destroys the shed vaccine. - more CO
Her life, her decision. I too have friends who vote democrat despite my overwhelming logic that should lead them to behave differently. Perhaps democrat messaging should be suppressed.
And why shouldn't Facebook or Twitter, private companies, be able to determine whether messages violate their terms of service? Both Twitter and Facebook have declined governmental suggestions by both the Trump and Biden administrations. - more CO
Fine as long the government is not in there, behind the scenes influencing suppression. Whatever position the government has, let them post it just like any other poster and then the public can decide for themselves.
Do you honestly believe Russian disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine should be given free rein? Or Iranian disinformation designed to influence the 2024 presidential election should be left for voters to decide what's true and what's false. - more CO
Damn straight! Who better than the voters. Certainly not some progressive who somehow "Knows" that most voters are too simple-minded and gullible to figure things out for themselves. Why not work just as hard exposing why the Russian disinformation is false rather than putting all your energy into preventing the gullible from hearing it in the first place.
Isn't that what one of the supreme court justices suggested: let Americans have the information and let them decide what's true and what's false? - more CO
Yes, and rightly so.
If you decide the earth is flat, that doesn't make the fact that the earth is round, false. - more CO
If you decide the vaccines will prevent you from getting covid because the government said it would, that doesn't make the fact that the vaccine will not prevent infection, false.
