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Cybersecurity Summit 2021: Responding to Mis/Dis/Mal-Information
- noduerme 4y agoI'm curious. Isn't this precisely what you want your government to do, not to shut down media but to get a handle on what is going viral and why, and what external influencers might be involved, and try to interdict it? As opposed to shutting down legitimate discussion? And to make all of their efforts and discoveries public as well? I've lived in repressive states, and to my knowledge they don't publicize their methods or intentions in cleansing their media sphere of anti-government sentiment, and they also don't allow platforms to continue operating openly. I think everyone has a right to free speech, but no one has a right to use a megaphone; isn't deplatforming bad actors actually the arm of democracy in action? More broadly, can't a government act as a moderator to preserve civil society? Isn't a democracy acting that way in its own defense preferable to collapsing into a dictatorship at the whim of a viral/populist movement that would immediately go further?