Subj : Re: Control of the Media
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Wed Dec 20 2023 09:10:00

>  MP> is currently very rife with misinformation.  One thing that bothers me
>  MP> about it is that Elon complained about "fake accounts" when he tried to
>  MP> back out of buying the platform.  From first-hand experience, I can tell

> There's no way to protect people from ignorance. Do they think they're going t
> hold our hand while we browse the internet? They don't seem to mind when the n
> s media lies to us, so what harm can a few Nigerian scam artists really do?

My thinking is that fake accounts don't have the right of free speech and
can be used to lure minors into things so it is best if they are culled
out.  A very recent example causing issues in Lexington is a Tik-Tok
challenge encouraging youngsters to try to hotwire cars.

> Important information should only come from the government (websites with .gov
> omains for example.) Anything that don't come from whitehouse.gov or yourstate
> ov, should be discredited by our built-in BS detectors.

Yet there are those here, and many other places, who will tell you that the
government is full of it and that is the last place you should look.  Those
people are often conservatives, so who do you trust?

> Or do we need to regulate businesses to accommodate all the Jeffs of the world

I am not so concerned about adults as children, so I think it is worthwhile
to remove fake accounts while still allowing free speech.

That said, I do believe that many *REAL* people don't realize that a lot of
what they say and do online is the modern equivalent to yelling "FIRE!" in a
crowded theatre, which is not a protected use of freedom of speech.


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