Posted on 01/30/2020 4:35:20 PM PST by KC_Lion
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday released a plan to fight “digital disinformation,” promising to “push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties” for disseminating false information related to U.S. elections.
“Disinformation erodes our democracy, and Democrats must have a plan to address it,” she details in a Medium post, proclaiming President Trump “welcomed foreign interference in our elections, inviting interference from a host of countries that have an interest in the outcome, including Iran and China.”
“He’s currently facing impeachment for putting his own political interests over the national interests of the United States – and there is every indication that if he is not removed from office, he will continue to do so,”....
Warren contends that it is simply not enough to “make vague statements condemning fraudulent attacks on opponents or efforts to suppress the vote,” placing the burden to fight the spread of what she considers “disinformation” primarily on tech companies and the federal government.
“Campaigns need to make clear that disinformation has no place in our campaigns, and that we will disavow supporters who embrace it and act quickly to stop its spread,” she states in her plan.
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Voter suppression efforts of any kind offend basic American values. In both the 2016 and 2018 elections, online disinformation sought to depress voter turnout by telling people they could vote via text, giving people the wrong date for election day, and more. 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Try voter FRAUD first.
“..She’s deranged....”
Haven’t met a female communist/lib yet that wasn’t.
As I said elsewhere earlier, I think Lying Lizzie - Fauxcahontas - Lie-a-watha - is getting desperate. I think she wil be out of the race the day after the New Hampshire primary.
If spreading election misinformation is going to be a crime, they better pass it so it does not include politicians.
We all know they are biggest liars of all
One should assume that she will have a “trans youth” vet the news as she has promised to have a “trans youth” vet her Secretary of Education.
You should be less concerned that she’s a crazy panderer and said this, and more concerned that most Democrats find nothing untoward about a top tier candidate saying this.
Elizabeth Warren is a totalitarian ass.
this is reasonable because Liawatha and Harvard Law
have on their own, now paid REPARATIONS to native
Americans in the amount of $15 billion.
oh.. they didn’t?
So right about so many things it is scary....
Like Russian collusion?
Uhh and just who is the arbiter of what qualifies as “disinformation”
It makes sense. They are going after the Bill of Rights one by one. Naturally they want to get rid of the First Amendment too.
The problem with a Ministry of Truth is that they had to establish the Ministry of Love and the Thought Police to arrest and torture those who didn’t toe the Ingsoc Party line, the “truth.”
“as public trustees, broadcast licensees may not intentionally distort the news. The FCC has stated that “rigging or slanting the news is a most heinous act against the public interest.” -Communications Act
Also, CNN pays the airports to be on their TV monitors.
Seems like they have bought themselves a monopoly.
George III would have loved that law.
Does she refer to the sort of people who try to increase their voter base by claiming they are Native American when they are not?
Did anyone hear who gets to make the decision that something is disinformation? Like CBS always does or what?
She’s a Red savage alright! Har-de-har-har
MiniTruth states ThoughtCrime doubleplus ungood.
Dumb as she is, she’s infinitely smarter than anyone who would vote for her.
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