Tucker Carlson Leaves Fox News

[Sage_Rat]

@Mijin

I think a lot of the problem here is the American conception that you must allow willful lies to have “real” free speech.

I’m not of that persuasion. I just think that it’s going to be a lot more difficult to figure out how to correct that. For example:

Based on Dominion, Should *Sullivan* Be Overturned?

In general, I think, you’re trying to balance a few different things: The ability for the public to debate ideas Preventing liars from spreading lies Not giving the government the ability to decide who is a “liar”, and censor them And, likewise, not giving some majority of the populace the ability to decide who is a “liar”, and censor them. If you ignore #4 then you can pretty well have any standard safely because, at the end of the day, a jury of ordinary, reasonable citizens are the ones ma…

@Mijin

Secondly on powerful leaders, the proximate issue is not revolutions, but belief in disinformation.

People have been reading about Bigfoot Sightings since I was born and this website has been fighting Ignorance without a budge in the trenchlines in 50-some years.

Belief in disinformation is intractable. You might be able to reduce misinformation by small amounts by, for example, making it more economical to bring a defamation suit to court (as suggested in the other thread). But you’re probably going to get more bang for your buck by reducing the value of political spending and the practical effectiveness of disinformation.