Posted on 02/09/2019 6:17:04 AM PST by BenLurkin
Taiwan is one of at least seven countries across eastern Asia that have recently enacted or are considering laws to limit or gain access to information about internet reports that officials claim are false, speculative, exaggerated, or truthful yet hurtful. As does President Trump, they often lump such reports under a vague, and often misleading, heading: fake news.
For nations with one-party rule, regulations squelching false or sensitive stories emanating from social media would result in an expansion of longstanding controls over the traditional mass media.
Such efforts have been on the rise over about the last two years due in part to the difficulty of identifying the authors of encrypted messages sent on social media, said Cedric Alviani, east Asia bureau director with the French-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders.
A Vietnamese law that took effect Jan. 1 required foreign and domestic internet services to hand over user data so authorities could probe the spread of any report and the identity of its author. The Cyber Security Law calls for providers including Facebook and Google to supply user information and delete content at the government’s request. Individual senders of what is deemed false information can already be sentenced to prison under existing law for attempting to undermine state security.
Authoritarian governments in Vietnam and China have more muscle to fight what they brand “fake news” because they already own or censor the major media outlets, Gomez said.
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I’d say we could learn something from them but the cure is worse than the disease.
Right. It’s Trump’s fault.
If liberals think we need a background check to exercise our Second Amendment Right let’s first try it out on the First Amendment Right on speech. Anyone guilty of FAKE NEWS or disguising opinions as “news” would face similar penalties as Second Amendment violations. Fair is fair.
In the USA the major internet services are already enforcing the ban on freedom of speech, and the government is willingly not intervening.
Different approach, same result —> tyrrany.
Good post.
I feel sorry for the Taiwanese.
But SERIOUSLY:
If you really look hard at it, are we any better off..?
You might even say that because the authorities ADMIT TO some role in this, they’re more honest.
In the USA you see this famous photo of Obama having the convivial Silicon Valley breakfast circle-jerk with Zuckerberg, etc, yet query them about Da Gummin role in all the banning, shadow-banning, etc. and they’re allllll denials.
Over 70% of the tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreigners, many from the same countries that are cracking down on speech. They have no concept of free speech or the right to different opinions. It does not exist in the countries that raised them. We imported armies of these people over here and have given them full control over the primary tools that we use to receive information and make our voices heard.
Yeah - not to do it. There is nothing good about it. One of the categories was true but hurtful!
Fake news rules are designed to prevent another groundswell like the one against Hillary in 2016. No more Wikileaks - no more email stories - no Podesta perversion - no more Lolita express- etc. Alex Jones closed down.
There is nothing legitimate about it
Reporters: I want just who what when where why. Keep your opinions and feelings to yourself.
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