Re:Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]
by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:08PM
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> I imagine we all agree that disinformation should be curbed
I think it, and the processes around it, needs to be understood.
Whether it needs to be curbed is another question; it certainly needs not to be systematically advantaged unless avoiding that would have greater adverse costs which means, when it is spreading within a regulated system like Cable TV, it definitely needs to be understood to assure that the spread is not an artifact of, or enhanced unintentionally by, the structure of regulation. Which makes it an important area of legislative inquiry even given the assumption that none of the disinformation covered is outside of the scope of protected speech.
I think it, and the processes around it, needs to be understood.
Whether it needs to be curbed is another question; it certainly needs not to be systematically advantaged unless avoiding that would have greater adverse costs which means, when it is spreading within a regulated system like Cable TV, it definitely needs to be understood to assure that the spread is not an artifact of, or enhanced unintentionally by, the structure of regulation. Which makes it an important area of legislative inquiry even given the assumption that none of the disinformation covered is outside of the scope of protected speech.