Maybe. Just maybe. If the system did not produce ignorant citizens, there would be no need to police disinformation systems those citizens engage in. Which brings me to another point, how comfortable do you feel about DHS determining what is sufficiently non-disinformationy? Do you think DHS would have an opinion as to whether Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are disinformation?
I do not understand the naivety that comes with this particular view. The freedom of speech is not about saying a $slur. It is about ensuring we are not Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Russia or China.
Why are people clamoring so hard to become like those states? Beyond government, who benefits from this?
It is not the citizens of US.
edit: added Iraq since that reference may not be as evident in in 2022.
> Maybe. Just maybe. If the system did not produce ignorant citizens, there would be no need to police disinformation systems those citizens engage in.
> I do not understand the naivety that comes with this particular view.
Frighteningly, producing ignorant and naive citizenry works for governments on both fronts. On one front, it makes the populace susceptible to "foreign" propaganda, thus a justification for censorship. On the other front, it makes them susceptible to government overreach and the erosion of their own civil rights to combat this "threat".
I do not understand the naivety that comes with this particular view. The freedom of speech is not about saying a $slur. It is about ensuring we are not Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Russia or China.
Why are people clamoring so hard to become like those states? Beyond government, who benefits from this?
It is not the citizens of US.
edit: added Iraq since that reference may not be as evident in in 2022.