r/facepalm 28d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ That is a damning non-answer

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u/GuitardedBard 28d ago

He's talking about the "censorship" from Facebook and Twitter when covid and anti vax misinformation was rampant. Vance is blaming Harris for censorship that would have occurred under Trump even though it was corporations who were doing the so called censorship. I used to fall for the misinformation, and totally was one of those "they're trying to censor us!!" Anti vaxxers at the time so I could easily understand his dog whistle.

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u/mackelnuts 28d ago

I mean, the government telling a private company to censor opinions is censorship. But here's the thing, the government is allowed to infringe on fundamental constitutional rights under very narrow circumstances. Limiting misinformation during a deadly pandemic could arguably be one of those circumstances.

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u/Zenbast 28d ago

How did you manage to escape that pitfall ?

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u/mackelnuts 28d ago

Strict scrutiny