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In reply to the discussion: Should it be against the law for news networks to lie? [View all]unblock
(52,431 posts)fraud involves lying, but there's much more to it than that.
if i tell you that blue and green are the same color, is that really something i should go to jail for?
if fox news or the new york times says the same thing, is that really something they should be shut down for?
now, if i try to sell you something and claim it can cure cancer when i know full well it can do no such thing, that's certainly criminal, but the real harm lies not in telling you that i have a cure for cancer; the real harm lies in extracting your money in exchange for something that i have conned you into overvaluing.
that's not what i get from fox news.
plus, as i've noted elsewhere in this thread, it's easy to avoid technically lying. twisting the truth is far more effective propaganda anyway. so banning lies wouldn't accomplish much anyway.