Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
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Re: Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
#2It's unconscionable to subordinate US companies and Australian citizens to a feckless foreign power.
If Singapore why not every other nation on earth?
Re: Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
#3This is how fake democracy works.
Re: Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
#4It's unconscionable to subordinate US companies and Australian citizens to a feckless foreign power. If Singapore why not every other nation on earth?
If you have the ability to moderate and modify posts on your platform, everyone and their mother is going to come after you and try to force you to exercise that power. It looks like Facebook gets to find out what happens when governments try to make you do that.
Re: Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
#5This is how fake democracy works.
Should people be allowed to say and write lies in a "real" democracy?
Re: Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
#6It's unconscionable to subordinate US companies and Australian citizens to a feckless foreign power. If Singapore why not every other nation on earth?
The US, and even the EU, already subject foreign companies to their power.
Re: Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
#7It's unconscionable to subordinate US companies and Australian citizens to a feckless foreign power. If Singapore why not every other nation on earth?
>If Singapore why not every other nation on earth?
What's likely going to happen is that Facebook complies, but only for visitors from Singapore.
Re: Singapore tells Facebook to correct post under new fake news law
#8This is how fake democracy works.
Should people be allowed to say and write lies in a "real" democracy?
> Should people be allowed to say and write lies in a "real" democracy?
Yes. In democracy, the public are the arbiters of truth. Particularly political truth.
Free speech doesn’t mean consequence-free speech. Cooling-down periods, mandatory preservation and disclosure requirements, et cetera are both prudent and commonplace. Court-supervised anti-fraud statute, which punishes for the harm done by the lie, not the speech itself, also helps.
Governments should not have the power to silence their critics. It’s a conflict of interest between the rulers and the ruled, and historically marches towards poverty, misery and instability.