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If the state made a similar law demanding newspapers provide their editorial policy would that be ok? You know in defense of democracy...

• atoav 3y ago
  If it is actually in defence of democracy sure. I have lived in nations with a press council before and the press quality was better than in the ones without one. In the end the only true defence are people that want to uphold democracy. If you have them, laws can be phrased as badly as you like, if you don't, then they can be phrased as well as you like, they will "only" buy you time. If your gov. makes bad laws, don't elect them next time. And if your only defence of the freedom of the press is to make coroporations people (but only if it benefits them), those are bad laws.
• mrguyorama 3y ago
  Yes? I fail to see how giving me, a consumer, information about how the businesses I patronize operate is a bad thing. Transparency about business operations is a good thing for consumers. We force it in the case of a "public" company in the interest of allowing people to make good investment decisions, why don't we allow such reports to benefit the non-investing public as well?