"perhaps a ministry of tr---" jesus fucking christ now im doing it stop it nyt stop doing this stop making me think stupid things like this https://twitter.com/sfiegerman/status/1356583481002913792 …
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"you know what the President needs its the power to determine what is True" jesus christ apart from everything else the paper spent four years losing their shit over trump and less than a fortnight into the next presidency they shit themselves rushing to create a Truth Czar
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Replying to @eigenrobot
It's not really constitutionally possible, but sometimes I do wonder whether the answer to this kind of problem is stronger libel laws.
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There really are *shockingly strong* legal protections against going around saying obviously false negative things about other people *unless* they become famous, so if you're worried about lies about famous people it seems natural?
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I'm not worried about lies about famous people however and expect that the primary beneficiaries of any such regulatory infrastructure would probably be sex pests
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Replying to @eigenrobot
This is what triggered my line of thinking. When crazy conspiratorial thinking was directed toward normal people, the legal system actually eventually came down pretty hard and Fox/etc had to pay a seven figure settlement. What if that happened more?https://news.yahoo.com/fox-paid-seven-figures-to-settle-lawsuit-over-bogus-seth-rich-conspiracy-story-003236858.html …
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this actually seems like the existing system working as you think it ought to, I think?
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we probably just disagree about a loss function here
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