Most Americans say the U.S. government and technology companies should each take steps to restrict false information and extremely violent content online.

65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online and 55% support the U.S. government taking these steps. These shares have increased since 2018. Americans are even more supportive of tech companies (71%) and the U.S. government (60%) restricting extremely violent content online.

  • Veraticus@lib.lgbtEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand how these questions are germane. We can and have already decided some speech is wrong to spread online and should lead to both deletion and arrest – specifically child porn and terrorism. We can and have successfully defined what those are. What’s wrong with adding misinformation and hate speech to this list? Do you really believe we’d have trouble defining those?