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Voters decide what is good or bad political speech (at least in democracies). It's already bad enough with concentrated corporate media and giant web corporatio
by pnako 7y ago
Voters decide what is good or bad political speech (at least in democracies).
It's already bad enough with concentrated corporate media and giant web corporations, we don't need to have another unelected group of "fact checkers" mess with this any further.
Let anyone, politician or not, make any political speech and, again, voters will ultimately decide.
- MereInterest 7y agoVoters decide what is effective and ineffective speech. This is entirely distinct from good/bad, or true/false. It is easy to produce effective political ads that are entirely false, such as was done in the Brexit campaign.
- mistermann 7y ago> This is entirely distinct from good/bad, or true/false. Very good point. It should also be noted that some things are a matter of fact (1+1=2), and some things (like whether Brexit is worth doing) are a matter of opinion, based on a complex array of facts, factoids, memes, rule-of-thumbs, gut-feels, lived experience, etc.