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There are huge Twitter meltdowns happening over this right now because CNBC put out a tweet without the "voting" disqualifier in the headline -- i.e. making it
by AndrewBissell 7y ago
There are huge Twitter meltdowns happening over this right now because CNBC put out a tweet without the "voting" disqualifier in the headline -- i.e. making it seem like Warren wants to criminalize all posting of info which is deemed "disinformation."
I agree that would be Orwellian, but what Warren has proposed is much more narrow: she wants to make it illegal specifically to post disinformation about voting. So, for instance, it would be illegal to tweet "Go vote in Iowa on February 4!" when the vote is actually scheduled for February 3.
- datashow 7y agoNo. Warren did not narrow it to only about voting. Here is her own website: https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/fighting-digital-disinformation https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/fighting-digital-disinform... Edit: after read through the webpage, I realized that although the webpage talks about lots of things, but she did only propose to criminalize disinformation about voting. But this still feels dangerous. It's really like a tactic from authoritarian governments. They would talk about "disinformation" as a broad concept, and propose to criminalize the worst ones, and then expand the scope of regulation under the same concept.