You are? When did I say: "Trump should never be allowed to be critical of anyone or anything"?
THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. In real life. Right now and the last 4 year. We don't have to imagine. It's here, right now.
Yes, that is exactly what I said. That's why I said "Oh wait, we don't have to imagine it, it's happening".
Why did you quote me saying "this is actually happening", in order to say "GOTCHA! THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING"?
We just have to point out how you treat Trump claims of fake news.
How do I treat those claims?
Also, didn't the definition of strawman change? You used an example. I pointed out that example in real life. And that's a strawman? I'm refuting one of the claims you made not one I'm pretending you made
What are you talking about? Seriously, your gotchas are so fundamentally broken it's like you're translating what I say into 6 different languages and back to English. You seem to have no understanding of what I say, and what you say in reply has no relation to it.
There's a potential for REAL HARM uncritically giving a platform to misinformation, as well.
Not if you have an equal playing field. Anyone else can say "no, you're wrong" and tell their own version of the truth. Nobody is elevated over anyone else, and everyone has the same "power".
But when you have the system itself marking, suppressing, disputing, or censoring certain speech, then it's not an equal playing field anymore.
Giving a platform to misinformation, which is to say, allowing it, is an inherent and accepted danger that goes along with free speech. You cannot have it without opening yourself up to danger in this way. The goal is not to eliminate all danger. It never was.