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Re:In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: N... by pjc50 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:18PM (#22132215)
The press in the US is just as factional as the parties. But there's a subset who live off slander - Alex Jones eventually got sued off the air for lying about Sandy Hook. That kind of thing does far more damage than just supporting one party or the other.
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Re:In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: N... by ameister14 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:49PM (#22132569)
Which is why it's illegal and you get sued for it. I don't think that's a good comparison - something illegal that is routinely punished vs something that is neither illegal nor punished, but has massive effect
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Re:In India What We Are Seeing Is the Symptoms of Fascism: N... by pjc50 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:22PM (#22132919)
Well, it's not criminal and it's very hard to succeed in a slander action in the US. So it's very rarely punished. Which is why he could run a channel of lies for two decades. Most of the time it was bizarre fictional allegations against the government.
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