Even if you feel that the COVID crisis is reason enough to endorse government involvement in social media content takedowns, please consider for a moment the next steps. Today we\u2019re talking about COVID misinformation. What sort of misinformation \u2014 there\u2019s a lot out there! \u2014 will we be talking about tomorrow? Do we want the government urging content removal about various other kinds of misinformation? How do we even define misinformation in widely different subject areas?<\/p>\n
And even if you agree with the current administration\u2019s views on misinformation, how do you know that you will agree with the next administration\u2019s views on these topics? If you want the current administration to have these powers, will you be agreeable to potentially a very different kind of administration having such powers in the future? The previous administration and the current one have vastly diverging views on a multitude of issues. We have every reason to expect at least some future administrations to follow this pattern.<\/p>\n