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Elizabeth Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading voting disinformation online
CNBC.com ^ | 29 JAN 2020 | Sunny Kim

Posted on 01/30/2020 6:17:13 AM PST by ManHunter

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation and to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election.

“Disinformation and online foreign interference erode our democracy, and DONALD TRUMP HAS INVITED BOTH [emphasis added],” Warren said in a Tweet Wednesday. “Anyone who seeks to challenge and defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election must be fully prepared to take this on – and I’ve got a plan to do it.”

Warren proposed to combat disinformation by holding big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google responsible for spreading misinformation designed to suppress voters from turning out.

“I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly disseminating this kind of information, which has the explicit purpose of undermining the basic right to vote,” Warren said in a release.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elizabethwarren; thoughtcrimes; tyranny
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To: Texan Tory
So now you can go to jail for gossiping??

So how long should the whistle blowers go to jail for?

21 posted on 01/30/2020 6:37:50 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Orange man not bad

Off To Jail!!!!!!


22 posted on 01/30/2020 6:43:35 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: ManHunter

What about the Fake News Networks cooked up “exit polls?” Criminal penalties for those liars would be great.


23 posted on 01/30/2020 6:47:18 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: ManHunter

Elizabeth Warren will be the only citizen in the nation allowed to lie?


24 posted on 01/30/2020 6:49:22 AM PST by abclily
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To: ManHunter

. . . but spreading fake news on TV is OK with her??????


25 posted on 01/30/2020 7:01:57 AM PST by RatRipper
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To: ManHunter
America's mother-in-law

Hillary is America's ex-wife.

26 posted on 01/30/2020 7:04:15 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: ManHunter; Liz; SunkenCiv

Oh, but when ABCNNBCBS promote lies and publish Florida vote totals early to discourage panhandle voters, they’re not “big tech” and so cannot be charged, right?


27 posted on 01/30/2020 7:07:22 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)
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To: ManHunter

who determines what the definition of disinformation might be

That’s obvious.

Any leftist anywhere.

Anyone who accuses a non-leftists, anywhere.

All non-leftists are guilty, immediately and totally.

All accusations by leftists are absolutely 100% believable, with doubts punishable by heavy fines, property forfeiture and long prison sentences.

It’s called justice.


28 posted on 01/30/2020 7:10:36 AM PST by samtheman (Trump Campaign Ad (hopefully): Look at Virginia. Look at NY. What Democrats do.)
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To: Diogenesis

FACT:
Harvard and liar Warren PREVENTED native Americans from
entry to Law schools.

Reparations FROM THEM are in order.


Good point.

I hope a Trump campaign official is reading this thread.


29 posted on 01/30/2020 7:11:24 AM PST by samtheman (Trump Campaign Ad (hopefully): Look at Virginia. Look at NY. What Democrats do.)
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To: ManHunter

If you like your free speech you can keep it. (Note to Vols fans: that was sarcasm. :) )


30 posted on 01/30/2020 7:24:06 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ManHunter
So basically, set up the {impeachment/indictment/censure} (depending on office) of any Republican elected, because that can only happen by lies?
31 posted on 01/30/2020 7:26:27 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope when it was always their goal.)
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To: ManHunter

What about lying on her job application? She lied to get a teaching job at Harvard.


32 posted on 01/30/2020 7:43:04 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: ManHunter

Hmmmm... Heap Big Liar.


33 posted on 01/30/2020 7:45:03 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: ManHunter

There should be criminal penalties for coming up with blatantly stupid political policy ideas.


34 posted on 01/30/2020 7:48:39 AM PST by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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To: ManHunter

Comply or off to room 101 with you.


35 posted on 01/30/2020 7:48:55 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: ManHunter

The tech lords can rest easy because she’d be the likely beneficiary of their misinformation.


36 posted on 01/30/2020 7:55:10 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: ManHunter

They’re broadcasting that THEY will spread disinformation via social media and are preempting anyone else making the claim before they point-the-finger at their opponent.

Of course, they’ll also be the ones declaring what is and is not “disinformation”. They really think we don’t see 1984 all around us.


37 posted on 01/30/2020 8:29:21 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

This pathetic liar is such a fascist.


38 posted on 01/30/2020 9:33:47 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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