The Supreme Court is skeptical of restricting the White House from talking to social media platforms
The Supreme Court is skeptical of restricting the White House from talking to social media platforms
They heard arguments in the case Murthy v. Missouri Monday.
We truly live in the dumbest timeline where the gov asking companies not to support dangerous misinformation is considered an attack on "free speech"
It's a completely valid question when the label "dangerous misinformation" is open to interpretation of whichever way political winds are blowing. There is no supreme arbiter of truth, and not every issue is black and white. I certainly would not enjoy a Donald Trump administration deciphering or filtering "truth" from "misinformation" for me.
This statement is great in a vacuum. But a lower court put up an injunction to prevent the white house from taking to any tech companies. Lol what?
We don't want any social media company becoming a mouthpiece of the the state (under any administration) but pretty much all media is in communication with government officials and yes to a degree those government officials can somewhat influence what those businesses CHOOSE to say and do.
We didnt have to live in the world where SCOTUS had to spell that out
If only we could enact some sort of practice - a doctrine really - where those who choose to engage in the disseminating of information of any sort are duty bound to be impartial and allow for good faith counter arguments. Doesn't that sound fair?
There really is actual truth in the world, and opinions are fine too, so long as they're presented as such. "The ocean has had record high temperatures every day for the past year" is an objective fact. "The oil companies have intentionally hidden the extent of their impact on climate change" is (currently) an opinion that can be debated by people from both sides of the issue if they do so in good faith. As one example.