Dear editor,
I haven’t had time to study the government’s recently instituted disinformation board thoroughly, although it does remind me a bit of a couple of George Orwell standards: big brother is watching and all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
I understand that watching over social media might be an advantage, as long as it were non-partisan, but how does that square with the First Amendment? And how can an agency of small numbers (according to a White House remark) read the millions of items that originate each day in cyber space? Unless, to disadvantage, the process is targeted.
I think we probably would be better off to let the chips fall as they may. I make that statement with grave concern that some doing the investigation might take the task too much to heart and infringe on one of the most precious constitutional rights we enjoy as Americans, the aforementioned First Amendment.
Bob Johnson,
Humboldt
