First in the Nation: California Attempts 'Fake News' Ban
http://heatst.com/politics/first-in-the-nation-california-attempts-fake-news-ban/
Next week, the California Assembly will be one of the first legislatures to try to ban so-called "fake news," and it could have sweeping ramifications for social media users across the state.
The bill, filed Wednesday in the Assembly's Committee on Privacy and Consumer Affairs, seeks, essentially, to make it a crime to be wrong on the Internet. The text of the bill implicates anyone who writes, publishes or even shares news stories they know could be false, if those news stories later have an impact on an election. ...
Of course, these haters of the First Amendment will set themselves up to be the sole arbiters of exactly what is "fake" - which will be anything and everything - implied, as well as stated - that does not comport with their views. Problem is ... if the fruits & nuts, nanny government of Kalifornia wants to ostensibly outlaw lying, then the inhabitants of the California State Capitol building will have to be permanently mute from that point forward.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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