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   XPost: alt.politics   
   From: noway@nowhere.com   
      
   On 7/16/2023 1:56 PM, Just Wondering wrote:   
   > On 7/16/2023 2:18 PM, Governor Swill wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:41:48 -0600, Just Wondering  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 7/16/2023 1:04 PM, Governor Swill wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I WANT the government to notify users and providers when they   
   >>>> are being lied to about something as important as VOTING.   
   >>>> The government is free to do that.  That's MORE free speech   
   >>> to counter what government considers a lie. What government   
   >>> CANNOT (and should not) do is to suppress such speech.   
   >>>   
   >>>> In fact, in an ideal world, I'd WANT someone to fact check   
   >>>> social media.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Again, publishing fact checking is fine and dandy.  What is   
   >>> unconstitutional is to suppress someone's speech because you   
   >>> think they got their facts wrong.   
   >>   
   >> Everybody makes mistakes.  A bigger concern is deliberate lies.   
   >>   
   > It's unconstitutional to suppress someone's deliberate lies.   
      
   As I explained from United States v. Alvarez, that's not correct (even   
   if you accept that perjury, defamation and commercial fraud can be   
   suppressed).   
      
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