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Re:Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor,Thre... by mpalmer on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:44PM (#26206651)
You are sorely mistaken if you think society would be better off with laws against lying. Crimes are already illegal. There is already an accepted legal definition for inciting violence.
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Re:Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor,Thre... by underseacables on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:52PM (#26206718)
Crimes against lying are bordering on thought crimes, because eventually people who support such laws lose control of what is truth and what is not.
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Re:Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor,Thre... by revscat on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:19PM (#26206949)
We would be better off with laws against lying… if they could be made to work. But they cannot, so we must live with lies being legal.
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