Sam Lowry said:
Doc Holliday said:
Sam Lowry said:
Rand is making an ass of himself as usual.
He's the only politician I actually like.
Your opinions are straight up the same as legacy media. What's going on man?
I'm just trying to look at it without the partisan filter. You've got a person who's interested in the study of disinformation and current topics related to it. She seems well qualified. She's a Democrat, and she's on Twitter, neither of which is surprising. If she were a Republican in a Republican administration doing the same kind of thing, no one here would be upset.
Yes, some of us would. The mere belief in mass disinformation is a real problem. What is ignored by you and others is that in conjunction with the idea of bad or misleading information spreading quickly is that the counter to it does as well. Unless you have behemoth operations like the US government using its bully pulpit to overwhelm the narrative regardless of truth. It's absolutely unnecessary.
We already have multiple agencies dealing with foreign actors trying to infiltrate and manipulate the information space. This insidious concept that's been taking hold the past couple of years is a direct counter to US citizens and their free expression. You are free to say dumb or misleading things without the government needing to "check you" on it. And the reality that has been arising is that it's become more and more subjective in the content versus basis in facts. In other words, a disagreement in perspective or opinion, not actual disinformation.
I just wish you'd come out and say COVID and the Jan. 6 "big lie" are driving your trust of government in this situation. You've shown a continual progression to hand over power under these two scenarios, and your continued defense of this is a likely another extension of that. Objectively and non partisanly, this is a horrible idea no matter who is in charge.