The US used to have similar laws and nobody whined about free speech. Media outlets should not be able to lie to people. Period.
Yes I agree, having laws against fake-news is really important now that A.I can quickly write bogus stories and image/video deep fakes are easily made
News station should state facts and leave opinions at fucking home and she be non profit and regulated heavily.
I don't agree with this. I tend to be a free speech absolutist, but if it's called news, it should only be facts, never opinions, never an agenda. I think the term news should be a criteria that if not met, can't legally be called news.
Just like we have truth in ingredients for food, we need the same for information. Everything else is fine and open, but you should not be allowed to intentionally manipulate and misinform under the guise of education
I'm pretty sure non-bias news is very hard to accomplish, I would suggest Reuters and other news aggregated news site for this.
I think it would be quite boring if not opinions where able to be a thing in the media. I get where you are coming from but if people have the understanding that you have to keep in mind of the bias of the person writing the article then it shouldn't be hard to get a sense of what to trust.
There was also a site that was posted in another thread that has a very interesting concept where you can split news from left to right. I don't remember the name of it right now but there is always alternatives.
So I am advocating for boring news because news shouldn't be entertainment. I can't stand this idea that information exchange has to be entertaining, that's the sign of a very sick society IMHO.
It should be straight up fact. X happened at Y time, Z people involved.
Really sad what happened in that country. They where on the path of democracy but ended up with an autocratic once more.
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