{"id":100028,"date":"2026-04-04T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=100028"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:55:02","slug":"qotd-protect-us-from-disinformation-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/04\/qotd-protect-us-from-disinformation-big-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Protect us from &#8220;disinformation&#8221;, Big Brother!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><strong>Troy Westwood<\/strong> @TroyWestwood<br \/>\n<em>The only thing more important than &#8220;free speech&#8221; is protecting society from disinformation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Troy is trying to sound enlightened, but unfortunately he has the IQ of a lobster. &#8220;<em>The only thing more important than &#8216;free speech&#8217; is protecting society from disinformation<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Translation: &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m terrified of ideas I don&#8217;t like, so please, Big Brother, put a nanny filter on everyone else&#8217;s brain &#8230; just to keep us all safe, of course<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing says &#8220;<em>I trust the marketplace of ideas<\/em>&#8221; quite like demanding a government-approved Ministry of Truth to decide what&#8217;s true for the rest of us. Bonus points for implying that the plebs can&#8217;t possibly sort fact from fiction without an elite class holding their hand.<\/p>\n<p>Truly the hallmark of a deep thinker. Admitting you don&#8217;t believe people are capable of handling freedom, then dressing it up as noble concern for society. <\/p>\n<p>If free speech is dangerous, the most dangerous speech of all is the one declaring that some authority should get to silence the rest. But don&#8217;t worry, comrade, they&#8217;ll only censor the bad information. Promise.<\/p>\n<p>Another swing and a miss for Troy.<\/p>\n<p>Martyupnorth, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Martyupnorth\/status\/2005299433504649363\" target=\"_blank\">The social media site formerly known as <em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>, 2025-12-28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Westwood @TroyWestwood The only thing more important than &#8220;free speech&#8221; is protecting society from disinformation. Troy is trying to sound enlightened, but unfortunately he has the IQ of a lobster. &#8220;The only thing more important than &#8216;free speech&#8217; is protecting society from disinformation.&#8221; Translation: &#8220;I&#8217;m terrified of ideas I don&#8217;t like, so please, Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,28,53,41],"tags":[459,1085,186,322],"class_list":["post-100028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-censorship","tag-fakenews","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-nannystate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-q1m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101687,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100028\/revisions\/101687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}