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posted by FatPhil on Monday February 06 2017, @09:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-there-an-all-fake-news-sites-are-liars-paradox dept.

Over the last few months, we've talked about the weird obsession some people upset by the results of the election have had with the concept of "fake news." We warned that focusing on "fake news" as a problem was not just silly and pointless, but that it would quickly morph into calls for censorship. And, even worse, that censorship power would be in the hands of whoever got to define what "fake news" was.

Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170201/23481336610/bad-idea-worst-idea-having-ftc-regulate-fake-news.shtml


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @11:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @11:02PM (#463765)

    There is no "nation" to build; there are no arbitrary "national" borders to a free market.

    The ideas of libertarian pervade society—even the most totalitarian ones; the ideas of libertarianism are what make any society robust, actually productive, and eventually prosperous, and this kind of society extends on just through some geographical region, but through any domain of economic (e.g., human) interaction, including cyberspace.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @02:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @02:13AM (#463842)

    The ideas of libertarian pervade society

    The ideas of lots of thing pervade society in various times and places. To a kid, parents are dictators, for example. Bits and pieces doesn't tell us anything special or different about libertarianism and its competitors.

    Further, some degree of X being good does not mean level-11 of X is also good. Some water is good. Too much, and one drowns.