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Scare quoting disinformation is for nihilists. Is that where you're aiming?
The article has plenty of examples that go well beyond calling things “disinformation”
The question is "were peoples civil rights ignored because of that?"
In both cases: YES.
Well. There you go. We can argue about degrees between the red and blue ties but where would that get us? It's a ratchet. I can point out the many problems of the past administration and you can point them all out in this one, and in 8 years time, it will be worse.
> I am claiming this is a serious escalation of a new kind of attack on the first amendment.
Okay. Did you do anything different last time because of it?
I generally think this is another of many absurd case of cry bullying, that there's basically no problem here, just that people want to feel bad for themselves & to excuse actual bad acts.
I just don't see that real problem or harm was done to people over disinformation. Meta talked with some people at HHS, and people are flipping their shit that the government talked with social networks, but it seems like a grade a nothingburger from cry bullies, with the big fat 0 of actual interesting claims that the incredibly shallowly obvious manufactured outrage that the Twitter Files amounted to.
Its just so pathetic.
Disappearing people from the streets in broad daylight, on the other hand, will probably have a chilling effect on discussion of the topics they got disappeared over.
As is engaging in discussion about it with people who own or manage them.
Reference Wuhan Labs.
How do we determine when something is true or disinformation? That's what good faith pro-social and pro-truth people ask. They talk process, principles, and reasons.
Personally I found everything in the article to be ludicrous and to have Jack-all to do with the First Amendment, but I am not very smart.
I am sure there are arguments that this behavior is within the bounds of the constitution but the 1A definitely applies.