Comment by tsimionescu
14 hours ago
Regulating information, while it's fairly common at some levels (e.g. school manuals, one of the largest sources of legal information control, and one often abused for nationalistic lies in every country's history), is a very dangerous thing for governments to get into. Do you think the Trump government would be more likely to correct the NYT or Alex Jones if they had the ability to regulate news stories?
There are many ways to tackle regulation that don’t involve giving the keys to fickle administrations.
Tackle the regulation of “truth”?
What does the FDA do when someone gets caught selling a fake medication? Do we wrap truth in scare quotes and try to make the sugar pills a philosophical issue?
Why is it so unconscionable to hold tech corporations accountable? We know (maybe I should say knew at this point?) how to enforce fraud and consumer protection. I fail to see how this shouldn't fall under commercial liability that's really all that different than run of the mill false advertising or product defects.
If we fail to do this we subsidize the operators and externalize the cost of fraud onto the general public.
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