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In reply to the discussion: Should it be against the law for news networks to lie? [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)than Free Republic.
This has nothing to do with whether the person is on the left-wing or the right-wing of this Forum. It has to do with whether a person has any ability to set aside their emotions and look rationally at the obvious consequences of their positions that they are taking. It does not require exceptional critical thinking skills to recognize that the proposal of making it criminal for a news service to "lie" opens the door to authoritarianism. It takes only a normal level of critical thinking along with some basic human empathy. The one who will decide what is a real lie as opposed to just a difference of opinion - if God Forbid such draconian legislation were to ever be passed in some future Orwellian society - will be a political decision based on who has the political power to declare something a lie instead of just a difference of opinion.