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> If we can prevent it from being created or launched, or if we can prevent it from reaching its audience, then, and only then, information can win. Agreed, we
by bavell 3y ago
> If we can prevent it from being created or launched, or if we can prevent it from reaching its audience, then, and only then, information can win.
Agreed, we must shut down the dastardly Internet immediately! And burn all the books!
- rbanffy 3y agoThat's not what I said or meant. Given a lot of political coordinated misinformation campaigns come from a limited number of actors and organizations, with mostly aligned interests, I don't think it's impossible, or even difficult, to prevent their weapons from spreading without any collateral damage to freedom of speech. You can still be wrong and nobody should prevent you from expressing the wrongness the same way you shouldn't be able to prevent someone else from correcting you. Remember the reason for free speech: it exists so that the people can be informed, a fundamental requirement for the exercise of democracy. When someone actively and deliberately misinforms the people, for whatever reasons, they should be held accountable for any damage they cause - the very same way one can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theatre and expect society not to punish them for the deaths they caused.