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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 Tuesday February 07 2017, @06:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @06:06AM (#463917)

    The establishment lefties are going thru the usual psychological stages of grief about their obsolete belief system getting rejected by a majority of the population.

    Voting "anyone but Clinton" is no more rejection of any given political idea than voting "anyone who will advocate for the restoration of German pride" is endorsement of putting people in concentration camps.

    Lefties call him Hitler

    I don't call him Hitler. The vocal minorities of communist revolutionaries and political hippies does not represent everyone, do not attribute their toxic bile to the silent majority.