Macron Wants To Ban 'Fake News' During Elections

[EricHiggin]

Aeolus451 said:

EricHiggin said:

Who validates the sources? who validates the validators? How many sources will be legally created just to be able to cite a source?

What you will also end up with is left vs right media constantly trying to discredit each others sources, just as much if not more than the political candidates themselves. What's the point in having a 'reliable' source if your opposition is able to constantly point out, that source isn't always reliable and has other dark secrets that may or may not be related to the political topic? What you can end up with is information sourcing citizens/companies being destroyed over politics, whether they are telling the truth or not. This can then lead to less people willing to do that job/work, which means less information in future elections, and only getting partial information can lead to even greater corruption, and usually does.

ugh. I prefer what we have now (leaving it up to people to what they listen to) versus giving the government more control over information. Only certain kinds of governments want that kind of control over people and it never leads to something good.  

Exactly. The Gov has a place, but that space is much smaller then what it has become. Larger Gov control simply means all the more reason to try and sway it's decisions in your favor, and all the more chaos that comes out of that entire process for everyone else. A smaller Gov that has less control leads to a more natural free market, where a Country and it's people actually have to compete, and where progress is truly made. The free market isn't perfect either and has it's flaws, but the difference is the people's freedom of choice to constantly bend the market to their will, and punish it easily as well. The major media Corps after the last American election is the perfect example of this. They tried to control the message to such an extent, that the people saw through it and punished them for it. The Gov also saw change as a result, but it was more so the free market and it's tools that made this happen. If you do what Macron is thinking of trying, and you remove the free market and it's tools, it will most likely work highly in the Gov's favor. While much more unlikely, it can also backfire and completely blow up in your face. Depends on how strict the rules are and enforced, and how rebellious the French people are/can be.