If people are spreading misinformation, should they still be allowed to continue?
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Jenny The Great ⭐
ANSWERS: 3
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Continue with what, exactly? Challenge bad ideas with better ideas. Fight words with words. The moment we take physical action against words, we have lost freedom of speech. So, if you see misinformation, I'd say point it out and challenge it with better information, but it needs to stop there.
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Politicians do this for a living.
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A - Freedom of speech. *** B - What is truth? (What is and is not true is very often much more easily disputed than it is proved.) *** As long as the "misinformation" isn't defrauding someone, or otherwise leading to criminal acts, reasonably it should be allowed. *** Consider: what about religion? If we suppress misinformation, and if your religion is true, then everyone else's is false and should be legally suppressed...right? And the next leader of the nation - if he or she is of a different religion than you - should be allowed to suppress your religion, because they believe that their religion is the truth. Right? *** No. Legally suppressing misinformation is a slippery slope, except in cases where the misinformation is in and of itself criminal or leads to criminal acts.
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