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Re:Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous ... by gozur88 on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:55PM (#14027575)
Once you give the government control over what constitutes "fraud", you can kiss your freedom to speak goodbye. Every totalitarian state in history suppressed (or suppresses) speech in the name of controlling disinformation.
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Re:Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous ... by gdulli on Monday April 03, 2017 @06:49PM (#14027965)
Are you saying you don't recognize the existence of fraud as a category of crime that the government already defines and can prosecute?
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Re:Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous ... by gozur88 on Monday April 03, 2017 @06:54PM (#14028003)
I don't recognize fraud as a category of crime related to a news story.
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Re:Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous ... by dredmorbius on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:57AM (#14031303)
The rest of the world does.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/03/29/felony...

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Re:Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous ... by gozur88 on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @12:08PM (#14034186)
I have no idea what point you're trying to make with that link.
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Re:Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous ... by dredmorbius on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:56PM (#14038753)
That fraud committed under cover of "news", "journalism", or other forms of reporting, remains fraud.

Here committed by a "citizen journalist", interpreting the term very broadly.

There's the Infowars / Alex (nutjob) Jones / Pizzagate case as well, where, under threat of a lawsuit, Jones has tried to walk back earlier reporting.

(There's another Alex S. Jones, a serious journalist, associated with the Shorenstein Center. Who I strongly suspect curses his, or Nutjob's, parents, on a fairly regular basis. One of the rather more pronounced, ironic, and tragic cases of identity confusion.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(journalist)

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Re:Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous ... by gozur88 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:46PM (#14044974)
You're mixing apples and oranges here. There's a difference between committing fraud to get a true story and printing something the government decides isn't true.
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