Posted on 12/18/2017 5:29:32 AM PST by Olog-hai
An Irish politician has brought forward a new bill to the Dáil (Irish parliament) which will attempt to legislate to prevent the spread of fake news stories and articles in Ireland.
The groundbreaking proposals were brought forward by opposition party Fianna Fáil in the wake of the influence of bots and fake new articles in politics overseas, especially in the 2016 US Presidential election and the Brexit referendum in the UK.
There are concerns that although fake news has not been used so far to influence political debate in Ireland, even in the particularly intense 2016 general election, that this could change in the future, especially with the prospect of a referendum on the legality of abortion in Ireland on the horizon.
The bill proposes that the use of internet “bots” in an attempt to influence political debate could result in five years jail time and a $10,000 fine, placing the same restrictions on online political advertising in Ireland as TV, radio, and print advertisements. This will require those purchasing the ads to provide complete transparency on their aim and who the target audience is to be. Ireland already has much stricter defamation laws than in the US, at least giving the appearance of a much more bipartisan approach to journalism and news reporting with no equal to the likes of Fox News. …
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Obviously this is not targeting fake news put out by the left or by muzzies.
So, no CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, PBS etc. in the Emerald Isle?
Someone should warn Fakebook, WashingtonPoop, NYetTimes, HuffPoo, LAtteTimes, BostonGlob, CNN-Time-Lies, MSLSD, NBCrap, et al.
Someone should also alert the social justice warriors who were calling Trump a NAZI (again) for having a “prohibited words” list for the CDC (’censorship’, #NeverMindtheAPstyleGuide)
No, but lots of state media that sound like them.
RTE Radio 1 Extra plays that “Democracy Now” propaganda show, also.
. . . which is the actual fake news.
who gets to decide what is fake?
I think everything the left says is fake? Do I get to decide ?
Interesting to see both the UK and Ireland making free speech against the law. How will they be defining fake news, hmmm???
[[Who decides what news is fake?]]
Fake people of course
What’s really interesting to my mind: Every single story I’ve looked at...none have a link to the bill. So that people can read what’s in the proposed legislation. Go figure.
That’s sort of like the question “who counts the votes?”
Can Germany Fix Facebook? A new law seeks to protect “human dignity” on the internet.
The Ireland of my ancestors is dead.It died not too long after their government chose to bow to the Masters of Brussels.Ireland sold her soul for a few pieces of Euros.
“Who decides what news is fake?”
Why, the government, of course.
Oh, well, I gave up on Germany a couple of years ago, lol.
Why do we even have anything to do with Europe any more?
It is becoming obvious that Europe is not free.
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