We hardly need to imagine a world, however, in which people and institutions are being harmed by the rapid spread of damaging falsehoods via the Internet, he writes. We live in that world. What might be done to reduce the harm?
It is very seductive to desire an end to slander and character assassination. Both sides of the aisle believe that we are being wronged. But for one partizan element to limit the other side’s free speech, that is DANGEROUS.