The amount of outrage, faux and real, over the Disinformation Governance Board is disquieting. Calling it the Ministry of Truth and poking fun at the shiny object at the top is tantamount to calm acceptance on the way to the slaughter. This has to be stopped ~ but how?
At least there's a target now. As Caitlin states, everything the Disinformation Governance Board is going to do was already being done behind the scenes. Now we have a target. A federal board tasked with being the arbiter of truth and signaling to private companies what to censor will not withstand First Amendment scrutiny. And fortunately the Supreme Court still has a conservative majority. Hopefully the Board goes down in flames with a robust decision that would also curtail the more subtle forms of government censorship.
You think it's fortunate that the Supreme Court is mostly conservative? No, they won't support the First Amendment; they're much more likely to support the status quo.
The status quo is that the government doesn’t get to be the arbiter of truth. While the battle over tech censorship involves many novel issues, the Ministry of Truth does not. It’s mission is to flagrantly violate the First Amendment. Conservatives shouldn’t stand for it, and I don’t think they will.
The amount of outrage, faux and real, over the Disinformation Governance Board is disquieting. Calling it the Ministry of Truth and poking fun at the shiny object at the top is tantamount to calm acceptance on the way to the slaughter. This has to be stopped ~ but how?
At least there's a target now. As Caitlin states, everything the Disinformation Governance Board is going to do was already being done behind the scenes. Now we have a target. A federal board tasked with being the arbiter of truth and signaling to private companies what to censor will not withstand First Amendment scrutiny. And fortunately the Supreme Court still has a conservative majority. Hopefully the Board goes down in flames with a robust decision that would also curtail the more subtle forms of government censorship.
You think it's fortunate that the Supreme Court is mostly conservative? No, they won't support the First Amendment; they're much more likely to support the status quo.
The status quo is that the government doesn’t get to be the arbiter of truth. While the battle over tech censorship involves many novel issues, the Ministry of Truth does not. It’s mission is to flagrantly violate the First Amendment. Conservatives shouldn’t stand for it, and I don’t think they will.
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