alt Hacker NewsThe Biden administration both asked nicely for actual, factually incorrect information to be corrected by sites and pressured sites. They were taken to court over both, and they prevailed on the former and lost on the latter: the administration (any administration) is permitted to ask a site for a correction, and it is then truly at the site's discretion. They are not permitted to pressure them.
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CobrastanJorji • yesterday at 12:41 AM
"Permitted" is doing a lot of work there.
parineum • yesterday at 2:58 PM
> The Biden administration both asked nicely for actual, factually incorrect information to be corrected by sites and pressured sites.
Like the definitely known and uncontested factual information on the origin of the virus?
you are factually correct but realistically the office of the president cannot ask for anything without pressure, by nature of being the office of the president