Comment by sneak

Scientific consensus is often NOT the defining measure of what a state (and thus a prosecutor) considers truth, and thus what they consider misinformation.

The dangers of medical misinformation, regardless of scale, do not negate the fact that criminalizing _what the state calls_ misinformation allows the state to arbitrarily imprison people publishing things, because it demands that the state be the arbiter of truth, something that does not have an objective legal method of determination. If it somehow did, promoting religion would of course be illegal as it is clear misinformation.

Also, consider for a moment the insane amount of harm the delusion that is religious belief has wrought. Should we be outlawing that, too? The suggestion that prayer is an effective treatment for ailments is a claim they have been making for millennia. Shall we somehow square your anti-misinformation law with religious freedom?

People should always be free to be wrong, because we often don’t know what is right until many decades or centuries or millennia later.