It doesn’t matter how great your intention, the ability for the state to dictate the boundaries of people’s speech, is censorship:

Five months later, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law. But for Sawyer and other proponents of the bill, known as AB 2098, the victory was short-lived. The legislation immediately became snarled in First Amendment challenges. Sawyer and his colleagues at NLFD—overwhelmed by harassment from COVID skeptics and frustrated by the sluggishness of medical authorities in responding to falsehoods—decided to close the organization’s doors. And a year after AB 2098 became law, Newsom quietly signed another bill repealing it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/when-fighting-disinformation-doesnt-work/677879/

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