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> most countries have laws on how media should work Much of how the internet works reflects its origin in the United States where freedom of speech is a param

> most countries have laws on how media should work Much of how the internet works reflects its origin in the United States where freedom of speech is a paramount value. In America, the notion is that it's better to combat lies with the truth than with repression. In the era of Fake News and The Big Lie, this value is being stretched thin. It may be that we'll need rules to restrict the spreading of untruths, perhaps a labeling system as you suggest. Even so, I think it will be very hard, if not impossible, to craft laws of that sort without building an edifice for repression.

simion314 5y ago
At least some punishment or force them to comply with the basic rule " If you put false/wrong information on first page like Bob did Y. then justice can force you to put on the same first page a retraction like "We are sorry, we were wrong, Bob did not did X" and pay Bob damages. So if some TV channel or Internet media thing says shit like "Masks do not help with Covid" they will have to pay a fine and publish "Masks can help with Covid in this cases " The issue remains with extrnal media like from China and Russia, they can refuse to follow the local laws and then we can label them, maybe tax them and use the money to support local news/media related universities.
- foverzar 5y ago
  > The issue remains with extrnal media like from China and Russia > we can label them There is already the "The Foreign Agents Registration Act" in the US. And Russia had recently copy-pasted it into their laws, which had caused a massive internal shitstorm and a heavy criticism from the West. It was a fun moment of hypocrisy to watch.