What if 25 years ago I spoke out against opiods as highly addictive and dangerous. Remember, this was in contradiction to the scientific consensus at the time that modern opioids were not that addictive. A reasonable person could have said at the time that my claims were false and posed a danger to people who were in pain and needed this medication. In hindsight it's obvious that the scientific consensus was catastrophically wrong, but it people like you were in charge, people could be jailed for their dissent.
If you did you'd have been in very good company because the world over the scientific consensus was that opioids were addictive.
That scientific consensus you are alluding to is not what you claim it was.
Finally, we're talking about celebrities without any qualification whatsoever spreading utter nonsense causing real harm, you can look at that in isolation and compare it to you making that statement out of an abundance of caution regarding something where there is no downside. The two simply are not equivalent. Free speech absolutists always pull the same trick, aiming to refuse an obvious wrong in order to defend their bastion while forgetting that there isn't a black-or-white at all, you can have some reasonable limits on what people can and can not do and in the age of 'influencers' with global reach the danger is much more prevalent than it used to be.
Free speech is a great good, but it is not the greatest good.
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.
