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Forums - Politics Discussion - Macron Wants To Ban 'Fake News' During Elections

EricHiggin on 05 January 2018

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42560688

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/emmanuel-macron-ban-fake-news-french-president

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-macron-fakenews/french-opposition-twitter-users-slam-macrons-anti-fake-news-plans-idUSKBN1EU161

"His plan would allow judges to block a website or a user account, in particular during an election, and oblige internet platforms to publish the names of those behind sponsored contents."

 

From the leader of the Country that birthed and spread modern freedom and democracy...



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collint0101 on 05 January 2018

If they're bipartisan about it then I'm honestly ok with this. While I can't speak for French politics in America there's no way we would be able to stop the spread of fake news in a non biased fashion even though we would literally be talking about factual statements vs opinions and misinformation



palou on 06 January 2018
EricHiggin said:

oblige internet platforms to publish the names of those behind sponsored contents."

 

That's a good thing, definitely.



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Mr Puggsly on 06 January 2018

I'd like to be part of the committee that determines what's fake news.

And if they're wrong? Who cares, they still silenced their opponents when it mattered.



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Aeolus451 on 06 January 2018

Sounds like something a state inching closer to totalitarianism would do.

"Fake News" is very subjective and a censoring campaign against it could be applied to anything the ruling party doesn't like.

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DarthMetalliCube on 06 January 2018

I dunno, maybe it's my Libertarian nature coming out, but I find this creepily Authoritarian. Like, who the fuck decides what fake news is and what's real? How? Doesn't most if not all news come with some sort of bias, and thus can be precieved as "fake?"



 

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XD84 on 06 January 2018

Good luck at enforcing this. This one of the disadvantages livimg in a globalized world.
In my opinion the best way to take away the influence of fake news on the people is to teach them to generally scrutinize the information that they receive.



palou on 06 January 2018
Aeolus451 said:

Sounds like something a state inching closer to totalitarianism would do.

"Fake News" is very subjective and a censoring campaign against it could be applied to anything the ruling party doesn't like.

The main proposal was to make sourcing an obligation. That's pretty good, I think.



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vivster on 06 January 2018

It's never a bad idea to remove lies from the internet. And while we're at it, give people believing and spreading the lies a mandatory course in critical thinking before they can access their internet again.

We need the browsers to step in here and flag every news article that is not properly sourced as a first step.



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Tulipanzo on 06 January 2018

About time already!
Really, let's stop being disingenuous and pretend that Fake News are some sort of all important facet of freedom of expression.

They are lies. Lies that the Internet age makes able to influence many more people that any following clarification.
If you produce and spread such content on your platform you should face the consequences of harming the public.
This is something that is already used in a partisan, undisclosed and opportunistic manner (and I should know: https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/italys-most-popular-political-party-is-leading-europe-in-fak?utm_term=.fsgaJn0JZ#.vkqb5eZ54 is a good primer)

Congrats to the smartie-pants libertarians going on about authoritarianism for completely failing to understand how a key element of modern online discourse even functions.