>On the other end of things, I think the libel laws in the US are actually way too weak. That's a good thing. Strong libel laws result in something even less d

>On the other end of things, I think the libel laws in the US are actually way too weak. That's a good thing. Strong libel laws result in something even less desirable: a veritable free speech dystopia where they're used by the wealthy and powerful corporations alike to silence investigative journalism, for example.[0][1] People blindly believing whatever they want to hear en massse from their favorite pundit or source is certainly one of the major challenges of our time, but it's not one that's best solved with stronger libel laws. Doing so would be tantamount to using nuclear weapons to solve poverty. [0] https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/08/12/angola-defamation-laws-silence-journalists https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/08/12/angola-defamation-laws-s... [1] http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/on-libel-and-the-law-u-s-and-u-k-go-separate-ways http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/o...