No matter which party is in power, the government cannot be trusted to label 'truth' or 'fiction' any more than Facebook or Twitter can. Remember when then-President Trump claimed COVID would just 'go away' without a vaccine?https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/politics/white-house-section-230-facebook/index.html …
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Remember when President Nixon claimed the White House wasn't involved in the Watergate burglary?
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Remember when President George W. Bush told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
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Remember when the government told us that cannabis is as dangerous as heroin and PCP?
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Remember when President Obama told us that the NSA had not abused surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden?
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The president should know that it's not Section 230 that protects social media companies from liability for false information. It's the First Amendment. The Constitution protects people — and social media companies — from government censorship campaigns.
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Replying to @ACLU @governorwatts
Wait, so
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Replying to @JeffreyBenford @ACLU
The ACLU's point is that the government isn't always good at determining what the truth is. It's not what-aboutism, it's a very clear example of what can go wrong when we allow the government to declare what counts as "misinformation."
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Replying to @governorwatts @ACLU
I don’t disagree. But it would appear that ACLU is suggesting we leave misinformation alone in order to combat censorship. On that point I would disagree. We need more accountability, not less, of both social media and of government itself.
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Outlawing "misinformation" is censorship. Letting the government decide what counts as "misinformation" is censorship. Government is accountable through elections. Social media is accountable by starting a competing business or broadcasting truth to counter falsehoods.
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Replying to @governorwatts @ACLU
Elections which are decided by the people influenced by the misinformation. There needs to be some system of checks and balances. I’m not saying government is the answer to the problem. But anything goes is not the right approach either.
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“Elections which are decided by the people with misinformation” - quite a conclusory statement there.
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