Posted on 12/13/2016 3:21:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
Fearing media manipulation in next years national election, conservative Union politicians are calling for fake news to be a criminal offense.
I find it sensible to toughen punishments for targeted campaigns, said Chancellor Angela Merkels CDU party member, Ansgar Heveling, who is also head of the parliamentary internal affairs committee, to the Rheinische Post.
Another member of Merkels conservative CDU party, Patrick Sensburg, also voiced similar ideas to publishing group Funke Mediengruppe on Tuesday.
Disinformation aimed at destabilizing the state should be a punishable offense, Sensburg said.
And a member of the CDUs Bavarian sister party, the CSU, Stephan Mayer, told Reuters that there should be a criminal punishment for spreading fake news, also noting the impact that hackers may have in spreading false information.
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Omission of the truth is also fakery. They should start by booting Merkel.
Without fake news, 99% of the media racket would be in prison.
News is as much what they don’t report as what they do.
WOW - that would be the end of media in America.
And who gets to decide what’s fake news.
I’d rather deal with that decision myself.
The US media will be reduced to FreeRepublic.com, conservative talk radio, Ham Radio, CBs and walkie talkies if we did that here.
Breaker. This here is Eddie01. You got your ears on?
This is huge and series come back.
Half a truth is a whole lie.
Our propaganda organs are experts at that.
What they mean by “fake news” is anything that counters the official leftist narrative.
Merkel and the CDU/CSU are not “Conservative”...
they are “Center”-leftist, with the Bavarian CSU slightly less so.
Count me in on this. If this law is passed here, count on the complete collapse of the old media empire. May we all live to micturate on the graves of the wretched liars at the nYtimes, CNN, and the rest of the alphabet networks.
Merkel is a Satanist.
She applauded every bit of this "ceremony."
German reporters aren’t covering serious crimes, which is far more egregious than clickbait titles, though it is about as bad as censoring the few sources that ARE reporting things.
German State Media Defends Not Reporting Girl Raped and Murdered by Refugee
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/06/german-state-broadcaster-fails-report-migrant-rape-murder/
Its not only Germany that covers up mass sex attacks by migrant men... Swedens record is shameful
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/its-not-only-germany-that-covers-up-mass-sex-attacks-by-migrant-men-swedens-record-is-shameful/
Just wow.
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