see, i look at this article:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/politics/joe-biden-facebook-open-letter/index.html
and then i look at this article:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/trump-campaign-cnn-poll/index.html
...both at cnn, within a few hours of each other....
...and what i conclude is that these candidates are essentially exactly the same, they're just trying to shut down their respective opposition on the appropriate sites. biden sees his opposition as "misinformation" on facebook and wants to shut that down; trump sees his as "fake news" on cnn and wants that shut down.
but, "fake news" and "social media misinformation" are just two different ways to say the same line of bullshit.
now, i know - you're going to tell me that scientific polling is reliable, and misinformation on facebook is not. but, if you can't see that that's a partisan statement, then i don't know what to tell you.
i don't want to make a blanket statement on the polling, but my substantive mathematical opinion is that i'm absolutely sure i could pull out some reasons to question the polling, as presented by cnn. if you trust the polling done by cnn because it's cnn, you're being pretty foolish, and you can trust me on that; they routinely fuck with their polling for ratings, if not for political reasons. they'll do things like modify the demographics to include "likely voters", or present national polling in replace of local polling. they do it every fucking day; don't tell me they don't, you don't know what you're talking about.
conversely, these attacks on what the fake left calls "misinformation" can be devastating for truthseekers across the spectrum, including actual leftists, which actual leftists will tell you. they seem to think that i'm a bot; of course, they don't actually, but they're treating me like one as a way to stifle my dissent. it's a way to disappear me, to erase my opinion, to put me down the memory hole. i promise you that if they get their way they'll start shutting down bernie supporters immediately by smearing them as "bots" pushing "misinformation".
so, which side am i on?
i'm on the side of free speech, dammit. fuck them both. they're exactly the same, and they both want to take away your rights.
will this be the election where the country finally sees it?