The purpose was to limit the ‘alternate facts’, fabrications, innuendo and outright lies being told on social media. The courts ruled that lying is freedom of speech. FOX ‘news’ even used that as a defense in winning a court case. This is not new to this Great Nation. Washington, Adams and Jefferson all had issue with the press and the truth. Our Founders knew that if out government was to be ‘self governing’, we must, as individuals, be able to separate the fly poop from the pepper. It is not the government’s job to do.
The purpose was to limit the ‘alternate facts’, fabrications, innuendo and outright lies being told on social media. The courts ruled that lying is freedom of speech. FOX ‘news’ even used that as a defense in winning a court case. This is not new to this Great Nation. Washington, Adams and Jefferson all had issue with the press and the truth. Our Founders knew that if out government was to be ‘self governing’, we must, as individuals, be able to separate the fly poop from the pepper. It is not the government’s job to do.