48% of U.S. say govt should restrict false info even if it means losing freedoms

[WEATHER53]

Big big big difference between being declared false because it does not match your agenda of feelings versus being proven factually false
MSM, Facebook and liberals employing the first criteria

 

[toobfreak]

Good job Donk voters indoctrinated idiots. Roughly half of U.S. adults (48%) now say the government should take steps to restrict false information online, even if it means losing some freedom to access and publish content. That is up from 39% in 2018.

Don't count me among them.

• The government are the LAST people I want in charge of deciding what is true and what is false.
• No site can police every post and vet every statement to know whether it is absolutely true or not.
• All sites have to do is issue a disclaimer that statements posted are the opinions of others which may or may not be true and do not necessarily reflect their opinions, leaving it up to the READER to research for themselves the merits and veracity of statements!

 

[WEATHER53]

Don't count me among them.

• The government are the LAST people I want in charge of deciding what is true and what is false.
• No site can police every post and vet every statement to know whether it is absolutely true or not.
• All sites have to do is issue a disclaimer that statements posted are the opinions of others which may or may not be true and do not necessarily reflect their opinions, leaving it up to the READER to research for themselves the merits and veracity of statements!

When did the readers right to decide get circumvented by a bunch of pearl clutching Nannies?

 

[M14 Shooter]

"False" information?
How will the anti--gun loons push their agenda?

 

[Crepitus]

What's false?

Everything is false and CRT and Black Lies Matter. Therefore all of it should be censored.

 

[Crepitus]

I can distinguish the fact that the left want their opinions to be heard as facts but the opinions of the other side are misinformation and need to be purged.

A simple "no" would have sufficed.

 

[Crepitus]

There have always been conspiracy theories

They don't usually result in wholesale death and economic destruction, much less attempts to overthrow the government.

 

[Pellinore]

Well, right now, our society is investing the power to determine true and false in the hands of people like Mark Zuckerberg. Would it be worse to have the government do it?

 

[dblack]

Well, right now, our society is investing the power to determine true and false in the hands of people like Mark Zuckerberg. Would it be worse to have the government do it?

Yes, yes, yes. A thousand times yes.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

Democrats literally say it's their job to tell white people to shut their mouths. Saying that makes them cheer.

 

[HenryBHough]

I actually like the concept provided it's me wot gets to decide was ist wahr und was ist falsch.!

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Liberals are not qualified to decide what is fake mews and what isnt

Neither are magaturds.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

I want both sides to be heard on social media

I want to eliminate social media.

 

[MarathonMike]

'm sure they do, and I bet you don't even understand why.

It's because the false information has become so prevalent that it's doing more damage than restrictions on our freedoms would.

That's because some dirty, underhanded, bastards are abusing our freedoms to push fake news and crazy conspiracy theories.

And you know who you are.

So here is the problem. Who gets to determine what "false information" is? Have you ever REALLY thought about that?

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Democrats literally say it's their job to tell white people to shut their mouths. Saying that makes them cheer.

The audacity of those fucking tyrants...

 

[Crepitus]

So here is the problem. Who gets to determine what "false information" is? Have you ever REALLY thought about that?

Truth is not subjective.

 

[USAF 2023]

Wouldn't the government be the first victim? Nobody puts out more false information than they do.

Who exactly defines “ false information?”

 

[Mac-7]

Neither are magaturds.

The difference is “magaturds” decide for while themselves while libyards want to decide for everybody

 

[Mac-7]

I want to eliminate social media.

Thats a copout since social media is here to stay

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Good job Donk voters indoctrinated idiots.

Roughly half of U.S. adults (48%) now say the government should take steps to restrict false information online, even if it means losing some freedom to access and publish content. That is up from 39% in 2018. https://pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americans-now-say-government-should-take-steps-to-restrict-false-information-online-than-in-2018/

Women, minorities, immigrants, and the children of immigrants who emigrated from places where they do not have a true freedom of speech.

That is why they are pushing a giant mudslide of non-European immigration on the US. They want to erase, eradicate, and rewrite the Bill of rights.

We are about a decade away from a Constitutional rewrite. Bet on it.