Good. freedom.gov is a clear subversive political influence campaign that should be banned by all European countries.
US misinformation is no different from Russian misinformation. freedom.gov is specifically meant to spread this misinfo, freedom of speech is the stated purpose, but if you believe that, you are naive.
This is obviously an influence campaign.
The solution to disinformation is not censorship, it's education and to teach early people on how to critically think by themselves.
On a side note, setting up a website deliberately designed to circumvent such laws will itself likely violate the law and might lead to criminal prosecution. While the US government will certainly be protected by diplomatic immunity, other people involved probably won't be protected.
This does not mean people should not also be educated. That critical thinking is also what leads me to the conclusion this should be blocked.
That is, what's blocked? Things that people consider misinformation. Some of it really is, and some of it is just stuff that's politically unpopular with the powers that be (which they're also going to label misinformation). And then some of it falls afoul of various copyright laws or other such.
But certainly real misinformation is a significant chunk of that. The proxy enables that misinformation (and disinformation) to bypass the censorship/blocking. So in that sense, yes, it spreads misinformation.
- pen and paper
- the printing press
- the telegraph
- radio
- television
- the internet
That would be true if there were objective definitions of "foreign political influence" and "misinformation campaigns".
But there isn't. One can wave their hands and say any information falls into those categories.
I can wave my hand and make that claim about anything.
“Oh those evil Americans and their influence campaign on free speech rights!”