What’s worse than disinformation? Government cover-ups and CENSORSHIP
The other day, Hillary Clinton told the media that the only way for the establishment to maintain its stranglehold on society is to give it "total control" over the internet, an idea that is much more of a threat than the "disinformation" she fears will run rampant without total deep state control over online free speech.
Not just Hillary but also Kamala Harris and even Donald Trump all seem to be suggesting these days that the only way to stop "misinformation" is for more controls to be placed on what people are allowed to say online. One idea that keeps coming up involves eradication Section 230 from the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which The Rutherford Institute's John and Nisha Whitefield describe as "a bulwark against online censorship."
The details can sound complicated, but suffice it to say that Section 230 of the CDA covers the editorial responsibilities of internet sites – are they content publishers or merely content providers? When the CDA was first written, the internet barely even existed, so the issue is murky to the extent that…