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White House will not sign on to Christchurch call to stamp out online extremism
- bediger4000 7y agoFrom the article: "U.S. concerns that it clashes with constitutional protections for free speech". That's a good thing to hear from any White House spox. It's too bad that journalism doesn't espouse including any context around what government spoxpeople say. It would be interesting to see some kind of stats around citing free speech concerns, and around waving off others' free speech concerns. That sort of context would help all of us understand a lot of what any government's spoxpeople say. Concerns that some might have, like "they're just citing free speech because it's convenient" could be immediately dispelled. Other times some government's use of a general principle ("small government", "individual freedom", "freedom of association") could be seen as cynical exploitation, and we could all evaluate the current situation more intelligently.