Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
I am of two minds of this and would invite people to give me some opinions on this thing.<p>On one hand, I love free speech and think it is good. The innovation capable from people being ably to publish their views, congregate freely, etc. is a foundational good I believe in.<p>On the other hand, I&#x27;m aware that certain influential figures explicitly manipulate their speech in order to primarily amass personal power regardless of any second-order effects. E.g. cults are horrible, even though people are freely congregating, they just feel like they can&#x27;t leave because of the emotional abuse these influential figures are heaping via their speech.<p>On a third hand, the loved one of a politician was severely injured because of someone who believes the incorrect speech of influential figures and I desperately do not want further injury or violence to occur spurned by incorrect speech on the facts of reality.<p>So what&#x27;s to be done about the actual, real harm being done, while also protecting free speech? I don&#x27;t want to assume that assaulting people is just the cost of free speech. That just seems so wrong to me.