• WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
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    Free speech will be used to spread disinformation and fake news.

    But it also will be used to spread sound information and hard truths.

    Unfree speech, on the other hand, will only be used to spread whatever disinformation and fake news serves the purposes of whoever manages to gain control of the authority under which it’s made unfree.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    Burying the lede. Here’s the bigger issue:

    The survey also found that 32% are worried more about disinformation and fake news than the federal government deciding what information and news should be allowed.

    What the actual fuck? This is scary af. I was taught the importance of freedom of speech in school--and this is the exact reason the First Amendment exists. I suppose that’s been quietly dropped from the curriculum?

  • meowmeow@quokk.au
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    lol. I mean, they could always shut down free speech and be like China and Russia.