Getting rid of the huge lie of the "right to lie"
It's time to stop the poisonous polluted rivers of hate and disinformation in our media.
In Full: Zuckerberg and Twitter chief grilled over child safety in US senate hearing - YouTube
There is no point talking to psychopathic corporates, who make money off criminals and trolls.
They need to be regulated.
Will America ever realise that the "right to lie" is more than a slippery slope, it kills democracy and rips society to shreds.
The world has watched it happen before our eyes, since the supposed “right to lie” was literally invented in 2012, by the US Supreme Court in the case of Alvarez.
It is ridiculous creating a “right to lie” and expecting people to fact check every single thing they read or are told, while the tech giants deluge the entire world with poisonous rivers polluted with hate and lies.
It’s like creating a “right to murder” and telling people they have to defend themselves, irrespective of age or ability.
That is why we have laws - to protect everyone, and keep us safe in our daily activities.
News flash: why don't we require all media do the fact checking like they used to have to, and outlaw publication of disinformation and hate, and suppression of information.
The only way to effectively put an end to the problem is to recognise that lies (assertions or insinuations of "facts" which are not true), and hiding or omitting the truth, are not "information" or "opinion" and so are not within the protected freedom of expression - and criminalise public dissemination of lies. Jokes are OK, they are not claiming to be truth.
Automatic Infringement fines like parking tickets for sharing or spreading existing disinformation
(strict liability in the English law sense - -no intention required, the only defence is "it wasn't me", or "it is true". (Will make people think before spreading.)
If you like, in the US, you can have a positive defence that the lie did not cause any benefit to anyone involved in the publication (creator/publisher/spreader) and did not cause damage to any other person, and was not intended to do either. If the offender goes to court and produces evidence that there was no benefit and no harm, and no intention to obtain a benefit or cause harm, the state must prove intention, benefit or harm, on the balance of probabilities.
Serious fines and option of imprisonment for uploading misinformation.
Social and all other public media automatic fines per view, plus imprisonment for creating disinformation, algorithms promoting disinformation or hate, and for failing to remove hate and disinformation, suppressing true information (includes removing true posts, or pure opinion expressed as such).
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It's not difficult. It's not dangerous. That is propaganda spread by those wanting to profit from spreading disinformation..
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America needs to stop protecting fraud and bring it’s laws into line with the rest of the democratic world.
News flash – it’s already covered by most countries’ existing fraud laws, which we are powerless to enforce in our own countries because US protects them..
Fraud is deception with intent to cause harm or gain a benefit. That law needs to be enforced.
Clicks, votes and advertising revenue are benefits.
Confusion, mental distress, wasted time, exposure to advertising we don't want, discord, hate, and the threats and physical harm that can result, are losses.
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Let's just get it underway and perfect it as we go.
- Within a month, I believe, 99% of disinformation will have disappeared, true information will be available,
there will be no longer any reason for secret algorithms to push lies or hide information,
and our courts will be doing the work of a single fact check in disputed cases, for all. Efficiency!
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