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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Replying to @davidshor
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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Replying to @davidshor
this actually seems like the existing system working as you think it ought to, I think?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Just imagining a world where Donald Trump loses all his money in a libel judgement in 2013 over birtherism and we spend the last half of the 2010's having banal arguments about healthcare.
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Replying to @davidshor
i bet he could bankrupt the democrats and most newspapers in the country over russiagate under this system
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I honestly think a world where both sides had to avoid saying things that were obviously false would be a better world?
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Replying to @davidshor @eigenrobot
Would you consider a lot of the Russiagate stuff false?
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Replying to @SenBreen @eigenrobot
I dunno. Like most of my co-partisans, I assume most of it is true but haven't really dug into the details. The closest I can think of to statements Democrats make which are provably not true involve the GA 2018 governor's race.
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