Re:EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs...
by ConceptJunkie on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:46PM
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> This has always struck me as a weird sort of edge case,
Actually, it's not if you look at it a different way. We have Free Speech in the U.S.A., but there are many instances where it's illegal (and rightly so) to lie. You can't lie about your finances to the IRS. You can't lie in court when under oath. You can't ruin someone's reputation by lying about him (i.e., slander or libel).
And you can't lie about there being a fire in a theater.
Actually, it's not if you look at it a different way. We have Free Speech in the U.S.A., but there are many instances where it's illegal (and rightly so) to lie. You can't lie about your finances to the IRS. You can't lie in court when under oath. You can't ruin someone's reputation by lying about him (i.e., slander or libel).
And you can't lie about there being a fire in a theater.