Subject: Re: Ministry of Truth
But since the hosting site has policies that it has voluntarily chosen to adopt (goes the argument), government can take action to help the hosting site do what it already wants to do - more effectively prohibit the conversation for hosting site's own purposes. - albaby

Perhaps even stationing some FBI agents at their facility to make those discussions easier. Or the platform making special API's available to the government to facilitate the government submitting helpful suggestions so the platform can better understand (expand) the scope of that which the platform already wanted to ban but may not have realized it until the government pointed it out. This seems dangerous to me.

I read something that helps me understand the seemingly endless opposition of views, paraphrasing,

"The difference between the factions is that progressives fundamentally trust whatever the government is saying whereas the conservative fundamentally is skeptical of whatever the government is saying."

That I think explains our differing views on the Government/Corporate alliance with respect to what is <mis>information .