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So which government gets to decide which government is telling the truth or not? Who is the moral arbiter? China? Iran? Russia? Just western countries? Good luck. What will happen is a limit on free speech of individuals with no qualms, and we all know it.

Facebook is comprised of people, all with moral compasses, but when your user base is increasingly growing to be the entire population of earth...it's hard to moderate. People act like Facebook, Google etc could just flip a magic switch and instantly stop disinformation through social media, which is virtually an impossible task.

On top of that, even if it -were- possible, you create moral hazards of who decides what is real or isn't real...and if you had it over to world governments, that's when you get into much deeper shit.




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