Tiffany C. Li: While the usual extreme right-wing firebrands are getting a lot of information very wrong in their reactive statements about the initiative, the complaints do raise a valuable point.
Combating disinformation is not even that new for DHS. One of the perhaps most influential government agencies working on disinformation today is DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which has worked on a number of initiatives, particularly related to election security and critical infrastructure. It is likely that the new board will have similar objectives and capacities to existing government programs to fight disinformation.
At its core, the blowback picks up on some key problems with any government program that seeks to regulate speech. Clearly, DHS needs to do more, starting with giving the public information to dispel these rumors and explain its objectives and legal guardrails for the program. On Monday, the department released athat responds to some of the concerns. Notably, the statement calls this new program a “working group” eight times, including in the title of the document. The much-maligned name, Disinformation Governance Board, gets a single mention.
At its core, the blowback picks up on some key problems with any government program that seeks to regulate speech. America’s First Amendment free speech values are the foundation of this nation, and it is right to be concerned when threats to freedom of speech emerge.
So far, it does not appear that the new DHS initiative is going to be a serious threat to freedom of speech. But the unfortunate fumbling of the rollout is another reminder that the Biden administration needs to do more to effectively communicate to the public. It shows that acting with too much caution and hedging too many bets can lead to the kinds of mixed messaging problems we saw here.
México Últimas Noticias, México Titulares
Similar News:También puedes leer noticias similares a ésta que hemos recopilado de otras fuentes de noticias.
Rand Paul-Mayorkas disinfo battle suggests 'collapse of liberal church of government': BonginoDan Bongino predicted the collapse of the left's 'Church of Government' after Sen. Rand Paul sparred with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the new 'Disinformation Governance Board.'
Leer más »
Rand Paul grills Mayorkas on disinformation: 'I don't trust government to figure out what the truth is'Sen. Rand Paul challenged DHS' Alejandro Mayorkas over his department's Disinformation Governance Board, asserting that Americans do not need the federal government to tell them what the truth is.
Leer más »
175 House Republicans want answers on DHS disinfo board and chiefEXCLUSIVE — At least 175 House Republicans are demanding answers from Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about his department's new Disinformation Governance Board as he struggles to defend the group’s creation and the choice of Nina Jankowicz as its first director.
Leer más »
Karine Jean-Pierre to replace Jen Psaki as White House press secretaryBREAKING: White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is replacing Jen Psaki as White House press secretary, President Biden announced Thursday.
Leer más »
What do European speech laws actually entail?Perhaps even the Department of Homeland Security’s new Disinformation Governance Board can launch some raids and prosecutions, writes redsteeze. RestoringAmerica
Leer más »
Free speech under assault by government’s new disinformation boardThe Bill of Rights, now in many ways the core of the relationship between American citizens and their government, was a happy accident of political necessity, brought about finally by the voters in a congressional race in the commonwealth of Virginia in 1788.
Leer más »