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Governor Watts of California (Daniel Watts)
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Governor Watts of California (Daniel Watts)

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Candidate for Governor of California. Free speech lawyer. Probably the most qualified Democrat running. Dog owner. I play piano.

California, USA
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Joined November 2007

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    1. ACLU‏Verified account @ACLU Jul 20

      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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    2. ACLU‏Verified account @ACLU Jul 20

      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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    6. ACLU‏Verified account @ACLU Jul 20

      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.

      304 replies 819 retweets 4,770 likes
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    7. Jeffrey Benford‏ @JeffreyBenford Jul 21
      Replying to @ACLU @governorwatts

      Wait, so @aclu is using examples of government misinformation to show that we should back off of social media misinformation? Smells like what-about-ism to me. I’m all for liberty but who will stick up for truth?

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    8. Governor Watts of California (Daniel Watts)‏ @governorwatts Jul 21
      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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    9. Jeffrey Benford‏ @JeffreyBenford Jul 21
      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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      Governor Watts of California (Daniel Watts)‏ @governorwatts Jul 21
      Replying to @JeffreyBenford @ACLU

      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.

      4:35 PM - 21 Jul 2021
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        2. Jeffrey Benford‏ @JeffreyBenford Jul 21
          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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        3. Calliope Stormborn‏ @CalliopeStormb1 Jul 22
          Replying to @JeffreyBenford @governorwatts @ACLU

          “Elections which are decided by the people with misinformation” - quite a conclusory statement there.

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