Do you trust The Whitehouse and big tech to control "disinformation?"

Sure, a private company can resist, regardless the government demanding something beyond the scope of it’s power IS a violation.

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The government requests that I don’t smoke.

That is not a violation.

The government has the authority to restrict you from smoking in certain areas…so no, it’s not a violation.

How about the government requesting you not to worship or pray to the diety of your choosing or simply requesting you worship a specific one?

They ran ads saying I shouldn’t smoke. I could either take their advice or not.

I know that we have to go to extremes to make a point… but let us keep in the realm of what is actually happening.

The Government is responding to disinformation around a public health issue.

Before the hyper partisan era, this would not have been seen as a problem… but since we live in hell, it has to be exploited to tingle that fear part of the lizard brain for the culture war.

Huh…?

Advise, even suggest…sure. hell, government can outright proclaim “thou shall not smoke upon the flying aluminum tube”.

Nothing extreme about it, just a simple request.

Again, the government is well within its authority to offer rebuttal to disinformation. It’s when the government starts requesting or demanding to silence it, that is stepping beyond its authority
And I don’t care if it’s Bush, Obama, Trump or Biden making the request or demand…it’s a step too far for my taste.

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CRT-ized math classes (in the news in recent months) for elementary aged kids IIRC that sought to find answers by things like consensus, rather than individuals being good at math for their age. Of course exactly WHAT they were doing is up for grabs because the “educators” in that instance apparently hail from the “You want bonkers? Here, hold my beer.” end of things in the culture wars.

I guess this is where you and will just not agree.

I don’t see a request as tyrannical.

It would be like requesting a wrong newspaper article be corrected or retracted.

Tyrannical? No. A step too far? Yes.
Again, it’s not just Biden, no administration should be stepping this far out.

Again, see precedent on censorship by proxy, if the government asks, encourages, suggests or demands it be done, they become a state actor and the first is applicable.

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What precedent are you referring to?

Citation, please.

“Censorship by proxy” is the title of that Law Review article you posted, isn’t it?

Because it’s definitely not a understood legal term.

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There are no longer any correct answers in math. Requiring a correct answer is now racist and white supremacy.

Equitable Math.

1=1+3 is now correct in the liberal world.

Again Bill Gates has his hands in things. He gets away with a lot of ■■■■ for someone not elected to any office.

Wouldn’t trust any Whitehouse to run a bath I mean look at the ass clowns we have had in the white house the past12 years

    1. Who’s counting at this point, really?

You can find numerous precedent cited in the following article.

The Supreme Court held in Norwood v. Harrison (1973) that the government “may not induce, encourage, or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.”

Norwood v. Harrison was a Supreme Court case about public funding for a private school that wouldn’t admit black people. It has nothing to do with “censorship by proxy”.

I won’t pay for the WSJ, so I can’t read your article. Why don’t you just provide the legal citations to support your claim?

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dear lord will govt please quickly intervene and tell this poster not to trust that?!?!

the more federal the better

Probably not one of the Insidious 12 that the admin has their eye on. But it’s not political mind you.