Re:France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax
by axlee on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:58PM
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If your speech negatively impacts another citizen, and your speech turned out to be all lies, you are absolutely liable for the consequences of it. The "government" is simply here to handle the arbitration.
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Re:France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax
by DiogenesKynikos on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:17AM
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Only under very specific and difficult-to-prove circumstances. These exceptions to freedom of speech are very narrowly carved out, and for good reason. The broader the exception, the easier it is to instrumentalize for political repression - and there will be a huge desire to do so.