(September 25, 2024 at 11:03 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 25, 2024 at 6:46 pm)Belacqua Wrote: OK! Everyone's patient and well-reasoned arguments have persuaded me. You win!
I believe that the US government should determine what is and is not misinformation.
I believe the US government should prosecute me if I post what they have deemed to be misinformation.
I do not believe this power could be misused.
Now I'm a good Democrat.
None of this claptrap actually addresses any objections.
No one has argued you should be prosecuted for passing misinformation. So far as I know, no one here is a government agent, so you're probably safe; and I wouldn't prosecute you, but simply call your bullshit out, which is what's actually happening -- maybe don't martyr so much?
I think we each should ourselves be aware of misinfo and alert to the possibility of being manipulated..
And for what it's worth, I'm not a Democrat, but your inclusion of that gives clear optics as to where you are yourself coming from. Mindless partisan bullshit bereft of thought and insight.
It's funny that you have such a high opinion of your own thinking but cannot cleanse your post of such obvious sloppy thinking.
Oh thank goodness you're safe. I thought maybe the bots had got you. They have drones now, you know.
Anyway. Harris, Walz, Clinton, and Newsom have all said they want limits on free speech. They don't want that because of Russian bots. I have no idea why you even brought those up. They want to control what Americans can say to other Americans.