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Re:Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published by abainbridge on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:12AM (#19189243)
The report recommends, "tech companies assume legal liability for content identified as harmful after it has been posted by users".

If they do that, the existing laws and court system would be used decide what is disinformation, in the same they are currently applied to traditionally published media.

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Re:Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published by AstralStorm on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:46AM (#19189375)
And then everything is frozen. No discourse allowed because moderators become the police and they cannot accept any liability.

This law cannot be allowed to pass in such a broad form. Obviously it is convenient to status quo.

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Re:Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report published by beaner on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:29AM (#19189312)
If this were being applied to the media, where the links come from, we wouldn't need to apply it to tech sites, where the links are shared.

This doesn't cover all cases but it's offloading the responsibility from "journalists" to tech.

If the media were honest at all they'd acknowledge that they're most of the problem.

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