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by greenyoda 1517 days ago
Also, it's legal (but distasteful) for political activists to pressure media companies to suppress stories that they don't like. But it's an entirely different thing to create a "Disinformation Governance Board" under the authority of the Homeland Security Department (which encompasses police agencies like the INS, TSA and Secret Service) to decide which stories are "disinformation" and shouldn't be published - that raises First Amendment issues of speech and press freedom.