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.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday February 07 2017, @08:49AM
We've always been at war with East Asia. Any claim that we ever had been at war with Eurasia is fake news and therefore must be suppressed.
Yes, fake news is a problem. But in this case, government control is a cure worse that the disease.
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