Senator Elizabeth Warren released a plan to combat “disinformation” online. Critics said she was threatening free speech; defenders replied that she was only talking about criminal penalties for spreading false claims about polling places. At Reason, Robby Soave says that the defenders are right about her proposal — but not about her broader ambition. “[I]t’s perfectly clear that she does think the government has a role to play in suppressing disinformation broadly defined.”

Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review , a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. @rameshponnuru