o_O.Q on 06 January 2018
| Tulipanzo said: 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. |
and what if you're wrong? as people that think like you most often are?
