The Biden administration wants private companies to censor online speech
reclaimthenet.org
reclaimthenet.org
This isn't a private company policy - this is the White House.
Is it amazing that the administration would even consider this? Isn't there a constitutional right to free speech?
Who can judge 'misinformation' anyway? Has the government (or anyone) never made a mistake?
Searching for reclaimthenet.org on Google lists HN on the first page of results even when I'm logged out. I guess this is disinformation that hits all the right buttons for this crowd.
Yes, the government says they would prefer private companies to continue slowing down the spread of misinformation like "Covid vaccines are a jewish plot to kill your children". It's perfectly legal for governments to be concerned about the spread of disinformation, and to ask business and individuals to work against it. They are not making any laws, taxing disinformation, or in any other way violating the first amendment.
The government would like its tornado warnings to be reported. If there were a sudden epidemic of fake tornado warnings, they would probably ask the media to try to correct the record, because that would be annoying and dangerous.
Every time a White House press secretary takes the podium and makes a statement they would obviously like the content of that statement to be reported. Implicitly, they would also prefer the exact opposite of that statement not to be reported, because they consider it wrong. This isn't new.