Thanks. I appreciate your last post. I would say that making it easier to sue news outlets is not going to increase anyone’s free speech. The reason that public figures have a harder time suing for libel is that the Supreme Court thought that was necessary in order to protect free speech. This is because in the rough and tumble of politics there are going to be many things that one side thinks are true and the other side thinks are false. We don’t want the courts having to rule on all of those disputes.
It is probable that you are correct in that assessment. I really don’t want to give more power to the courts.
At the same time, I don’t want the current media to continue to sleep with the establishment (whatever that even means any more) and get away with it while using establishment power to forcibly quash any dissent, like they have been doing. Social media is a good start, but it’s still a problem.
There’s a great wrong happening here, and I really don’t know how to address it.
Having said that, I guess that I’d want to see specifics before making judgment calls one way or the other.