Ministry of Truth?

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(04-30-2022, 11:45 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You actually mentioned a key point of concern for me, that of labeling this a nexus of "counter terrorism".  I don't disagree with your assessment, but labeling dis, mis, or mal information as terrorism, which could easily happen, gives the government broad discretion to "deal with" said terrorism.  So now you've got a double whammy, the government can not only label you a spreader of dangerous untruths but they can treat you as a terrorist while they do it.  If you want a real life example of the possible consequences then look no further than Guantanamo Bay.  The implications are honestly terrifying and definitely a greater "threat to our democracy" (seeing as that's the current talking point) than any spreader of disinformation.

As you say, we'll have to wait and see, but as I said earlier, the optics of this are just horrible.

I get what you're saying man. Terrorism is certainly an emotionally loaded concept and a lot of authoritarian things have been done under the banner of fighting it. This might actually be useful for helping us defend against cyber warfare we'll just have to see.