> The devil is in the detail here, though. Who is going to decide what is misinformation and not?
I think that it is separate question - should the government have power to censor misinformation? Is it good or bad for this company to censor that misinformation?
However, that does not mean that misinformation campaign itself can not be considered "an assault on free speech" or whatever else.
Re:Freedom of Speech (2019)
by ernst_klim on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:01AM
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> misinformation campaign itself can not be considered "an assault on free speech"
How is it an assault if it doesn't prohibit the opposing opinion.
First, I quoted someone upthread who set the term. Second, in contemporary English, the word assault is used figuratively in the meaning of "attack" including "verbal attack".
It does not require the prohibition to happen. It does not have to succeed either.
Re:Freedom of Speech (2019)
by ernst_klim on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:56AM
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> in contemporary English, the word assault is used figuratively in the meaning of "attack" including "verbal attack".
But how is it an attack on free speech? If it doesn't endanger free speech or threatened, or even refer to it.
I think you should articulate the connection, because I see no connection whatsoever.
It seem to me the main problem are that there are things like troll factories and also that everybody is just getting information from their own bubble. The latter could maybe be addressed in a small way if we forbid these big companies to spy on people so much. For the first problem I just do not see a solution. Maybe the only thing that can be done is waiting until peoples BS-detectors have calibrated themselves somewhat to the new online world that we are living in. Which may or may not happen.....