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The art of the oppressed：There is no such thing as fake news
- theseoafs 10y agoWhat a bad article. I mean, starting from the very first parapgraph: > What puzzles me about the discussions around “fake news”, is how everybody in favor of free speech is now calling for censorship. Like, really? Don’t you see where this will lead — ”a Ministry of Truth” and other things that only 1984 could have envisioned. There is no one prominent who is arguing for unilateral government censorship of fake news sites. What has been proposed are a series of reforms, usually outside of the legal system, to help people identify blatantly incorrect but otherwise convincing-looking articles on big platforms like Facebook, which bears no resemblance to anything Orwellian.
- tbsmartens 10y agoDeleted / I made my point in the original article
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- CalChris 10y agoto my knowledge similar things are on the table as well in the US Cite your knowledge. Non-fake reliable source please.
- theseoafs 10y agoNo fines for fake news are "on the table" in the US. Obviously policies that are meant to target fake news wouldn't touch opinion pieces about the best Christmas gifts.
- tbsmartens 10y agoEverything is an opinion, isn't?
- theseoafs 10y agoNo.