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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @08:44PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @08:44PM (#1073868)

    A fairness doctrine might help, as long as there is some mechanism to disregard the lunatic sides of issues. Birtherism never merited equal coverage.

    I would hate to see every capricious charge and conspiracy theory given equal time in the news cycles (which BTW is one of the defects of twitter).

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 06 2020, @09:21PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 06 2020, @09:21PM (#1073900) Homepage Journal

    I kinda agree. No need to actually give Qanon time and space to spread their brand of crazy.

    On the other hand, social media shouldn't be pursuing Qanon to shut them down.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @11:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 06 2020, @11:28PM (#1073964)

    A fairness doctrine might help, as long as there is some mechanism to disregard the lunatic sides of issues.

    We already have such a mechanism: they should be required to produce evidence (i.e., something that could be reasonably believed to stand up to cross examination in a court of law). If they don't have that then they shouldn't go on the air with it.