1. How is allowing the unchecked proliferation of false and misleading media not also a slippery slope, and why is
that never a concern?
2. False dichotomy - Twitter attempting to label deepfakes and deceptive media has no negative effect on critical thinking or education, just as Twitter not doing has no positive effect on either. Twitter is not setting education policy for any society or government, here.
3. There is no government or society in the world which does not place some limits on speech in some form, even the US has laws against terrorist threats, slander, libel, lying under oath, misleading labels on food and drugs, misleading contracts, etc ... demonstrating that one common and widely accepted basis for limiting speech is deception and misleading information.
Also, merely classifying data is not preventing its spread, and is not, therefore, a limit on free speech even in theory. If that were the case, then every tag on Twitter would also somehow be "not free speech."
Also, Twitter is a privately owned platform, not a government or a public square.
2. False dichotomy - Twitter attempting to label deepfakes and deceptive media has no negative effect on critical thinking or education, just as Twitter not doing has no positive effect on either. Twitter is not setting education policy for any society or government, here.
3. There is no government or society in the world which does not place some limits on speech in some form, even the US has laws against terrorist threats, slander, libel, lying under oath, misleading labels on food and drugs, misleading contracts, etc ... demonstrating that one common and widely accepted basis for limiting speech is deception and misleading information.
Also, merely classifying data is not preventing its spread, and is not, therefore, a limit on free speech even in theory. If that were the case, then every tag on Twitter would also somehow be "not free speech."
Also, Twitter is a privately owned platform, not a government or a public square.