Re: Seriously?
Yes it is. Who decides what are "lies" and "propaganda"? The government? Just look at what Trump has to say on "alternative facts"....
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. As soon as you start to put boundaries on it, you no longer have it...
I guess you're suggesting we should do away with the Press Complaints Comission, the Advertising Standards Authority, the offence of libel, and so forth? Because clearly, in your mind, there is no public interest in being able to discern fact from fiction, and these things are pointless.
Truth is not actually a subjective concept, and while there are of course cases where it is difficult to separate truth from falsehood, it is absolutely not beyond the wit of man to make a decent effort at doing so most of the time. There are plenty of areas where we do that quite well, in civilised countries at least.
It does, of course, require that society as a whole wants that effort to be made, and as far as the USA is concerned, perhaps that is indeed open to question, since they seem to have elected a compulsive liar as president. But who understands Americans anyway?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
