{"id":5129,"date":"2022-04-28T01:36:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T01:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/28\/tolerating-covid-misinformation-is-better-than-the-alternative\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T01:36:25","slug":"tolerating-covid-misinformation-is-better-than-the-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/28\/tolerating-covid-misinformation-is-better-than-the-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolerating COVID Misinformation Is Better Than the Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/original282296450637869121542676..jpg?resize=625%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/original282296450637869121542676..jpg?w=828&amp;ssl=1 828w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/original282296450637869121542676..jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/original282296450637869121542676..jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/original282296450637869121542676..jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/original282296450637869121542676..jpg?resize=624%2C351&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The First Amendment hasn\u2019t kept public officials from calling upon Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other tech platforms to restrict false or misleading claims about vaccination and other COVID-related issues. The White House has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CCDHate\/status\/1416010577554587655\">urged<\/a>\u00a0tech companies to censor individuals engaged in protected speech. Senator Amy Klobuchar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.klobuchar.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/2021\/7\/klobuchar-luj-n-introduce-legislation-to-hold-digital-platforms-accountable-for-vaccine-and-other-health-related-misinformation\">introduced<\/a>\u00a0legislation in hopes of pressuring social-media companies to do more \u201cto prevent the spread of deadly vaccine misinformation.\u201d And the government can apply pressure on private speech in other ways: The Department of Homeland Security, for example, is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/ntas\/advisory\/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-february-07-2022\">characterizing<\/a>\u00a0misinformation as a terrorism threat. All of these efforts reflect a judgment that, at least on pandemic matters, the liberal approach to dissent has greater costs than benefits.<\/p><p><\/p><p>But that judgment is mistaken. During past crises, even wars, the case for liberal speech norms remained so strong that Americans look back on departures from them with regret. Likewise, I can think of at least four reasons why neither government officials nor corporate bosses should try to protect the public by newly restricting the expression of ideas, even during a pandemic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/03\/tolerating-covid-misinformation-better-alternative\/626564\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/03\/tolerating-covid-misinformation-better-alternative\/626564\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Amendment hasn\u2019t kept public officials from calling upon Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other tech platforms to restrict false or misleading claims about vaccination and other COVID-related issues. The White House has\u00a0urged\u00a0tech companies to censor individuals engaged in protected speech. Senator Amy Klobuchar\u00a0introduced\u00a0legislation in hopes of pressuring social-media companies to do more \u201cto prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1kJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}