The new plan: federal government would define a “new public square” with a “common space with shared facts.”

The only reason I can see why the federal government wants to “define a new public square” is so it can have some control over the flow of information. Am I being too paranoid?

If the internet is to remain a truly free-flow of information, we need to keep it free from any type of control.

Sure, there will always be misinformation, but having multiple sources of info is the checks-and-balances system to identify that misinformation as bogus.

This new system sounds suspiciously like the “new public square” is the “public option” for the media and this extreme makeover is not only for media but our system of government.