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Once you give the government control over what constitutes "fraud", you can kiss your freedom to speak goodbye. Every totalitarian state in history suppressed
by gozur88 10y ago
Once you give the government control over what constitutes "fraud", you can kiss your freedom to speak goodbye. Every totalitarian state in history suppressed (or suppresses) speech in the name of controlling disinformation.
- gdulli 10y agoAre you saying you don't recognize the existence of fraud as a category of crime that the government already defines and can prosecute?
- gozur88 10y agoI don't recognize fraud as a category of crime related to a news story.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThe rest of the world does. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/03/29/felony-charges-planned-parenthood-film/99767988/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/03/29/felony...
- gozur88 10y agoI have no idea what point you're trying to make with that link.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThat fraud committed under cover of "news", "journalism", or other forms of reporting, remains fraud. Here committed by a "citizen journalist", interpreting the term very broadly. There's the Infowars / Alex (nutjob) Jones / Pizzagate case as well, where, under threat of a lawsuit, Jones has tried to walk back earlier reporting. (There's another Alex S. Jones, a serious journalist, associated with the Shorenstein Center. Who I strongly suspect curses his, or Nutjob's, parents, on a fairly regular basis. One of the rather more pronounced, ironic, and tragic cases of identity confusion.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(journalist) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(journalist)
- gozur88 10y agoYou're mixing apples and oranges here. There's a difference between committing fraud to get a true story and printing something the government decides isn't true.