Mission creep della censura anti fake news. Anche in Italia? Le differenze con la censura cinese si assottigliano. <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/20/facebook-anti-lockdown-pr...> Facebook said on Monday that it was banning users from organizing “events that defy government’s guidance on social distancing”. The company’s decision to selectively enforce state public health orders came amid a spate of rallies protesting against statewide stay-at-home orders in cities cross the US, and it drew condemnation from rightwing supporters of the protest movement, Donald Trump Jr, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The controversy highlighted the challenges that arise when a private company controls so much of the digital “public square” – especially at a time when access to physical public squares is limited by public health orders. “Mass public gatherings that ignore social-distancing recommendations may well be creating a public health danger to those protesting and their communities,” said Vera Eidelman, staff attorney with the ACLU’s speech, privacy and technology project. “But speech about government responses to the pandemic – from relief packages like the Cares Act to stay-home orders – is core political speech.” The relatively small anti-shutdown protests have received substantial media attention, as well as an implicit endorsement from Donald Trump. Much of the organizing for the rallies has occurred on Facebook, in a network of groups controlled by a family of pro-gun activists, the Washington Post and NBC News reported. But the gatherings have been criticized by public health experts and health care workers. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a group of nurses on Monday met a protest against stay-at-home orders with signs urging people to go home. [...]