[amimrroboto]

It's okay to go protest on the street.

It's not okay to clone yourself thousands of times and generate constant new protest speeches.

Misinformation works faster and different online vs the real world. I'm not against all opinions and viewpoints being taken away, that's obviously a scary route. But clear misinformation has dangerous impacts at the speed it's produced, shared, and consumed.

[idiotsecant]

>clear misinformation

You say that like such a thing is clearly defined.

Does it depend on intent? If I say something that you consider to be incorrect but I understand it to be correct is that misinformation? Or do I need to know it's false? If the former we need an arbiter of what is true, which is not a trivial thing. If the latter we need an arbiter of what i believe which is basically a good chunk of what the legal system does.

Does it have to be demonstrably harmful? What is the threshold of harm? There are plenty of things that might be wrong and minimally harmful to say, but some that are more medium level harmful. If it doesn't have to be demonstrably harmful then what you've just done is literally just oppressing someone you disagree with for no real reason.

There is a reason that we tilt toward freedom of speech with governments. Doing otherwise doesn't scale and tends to devolve into people in power censoring opinions and topics they don't like.

[TrispusAttucks]

Agreed.

Also "truth" isn't exactly static. Just look at the change in the "science" of mask best practices; or the Hunter laptop that has now been verified.

How do we handle that?

Do we compensate those that were punished prematurely (when they turned out to be right)?

Do we punish platforms that censored people? (when people turned out to be right)?

The issue right now is that the platforms do not have the same standards as the people using them. The incentive is just to censor content that isn't backed by power or money.

[idiotsecant]

This is the problem for arguing for free speech. You get lumped in with loonies. I will gladly defend your right to be misinformed on the internet, though.

[shkkmo]

Misinformation does not imply any untruthful intent or knowledge of error. The word for that is disinformation or simply lieing.