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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by seoaeu on Friday July 16, 2021 @02:47PM (#27859749)
You don't have to be an arbiter of all truth to flag some statements as dangerously untrue. Just because truth is sometimes hard to determine doesn't mean that we have to give up on there being an objective reality
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Re:Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” by cwkoss on Friday July 16, 2021 @06:17PM (#27861858)
"Dangerously untrue" is entirely subjective. NSA director testified that Snowden revelations were untrue. Snowden revelations cost US credibility, and probably has hampered our ability to "protect the globe". Does that make Snowden's revelations dangerously untrue?

Is there a specific legal test you could propose to distinguish actually 'dangerously untrue' information from info which just threatens existing power structures?

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