Defining misinformation

Free speech advocates opposed government efforts, urged by members of the public, to restrict and eliminate misinformation about COVID, the 2020 election, January 6, conversion therapy, and other subjects. They warned, in part, about the danger of giving the government the power to define what is true and to restrict speech the government defines as "misinformation." If you give the Biden Administration the power to define the truth about COVID and to suppress as "misinformation" any speech that departs from that truth, nothing stops the Trump Administration from defining the truth about something liberals care about and suppressing as misinformation speech that departs from that truth.

I did not expect that the warning would become real over something as stupid as Donald Trump unilaterally renaming the Gulf of Mexico and his administration insisting that using that name reflects a "commitment to misinformation" worthy of sanction. Yet here we are.

Update: Eugene has more.