CNN, look out!
In the US it’s considered free speech under the Constitution.
Well, you can’t get much more “1984” than this, unless you bring up “Hate Speech”.
The bill defines fake news as “any news, information, data and reports which is, or are, wholly or partly false whether in the form of features, visuals or audio recordings or in any other form capable of suggesting words or ideas.”
I wonder what the standard is for declaring something false and who or what body gets to decide?
And how soon before such laws are passed here?
(HA) 26 March 2018: Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia today announced that he has been a homosexual transvestite since the early 1990’s and promises to hold a state ball. Designers from around the world are clamoring to have the honor of making a dress for Razak with selected designers saying that he should look cute in pink chiffon and taffeta.
How many “fake news” stories promulgated by conservatives are denounced at first, but are found truthful in the end?
Contrast that to the dems and “newsies”, who celebrate the lie and just change the subject when they are eventually proven wrong.
Fake news is sedition. It transgresses free speech as it becomes political propaganda.
Every crime is based on a foundation of falsehood. I’ve always said that; nothing will change until lying is made to be a painful and expensive habit.