28th March 2017, 3:18 PM
Well, ISPs can now sell our personal data. Not being able to do that was just too STIFLING!
In California, someone's put forward a bill to outlaw fake news. You and me would look at this and say "well, hey, Breitbart, Infowars, The Blaze, and Red State is now illegal", but right now number 45 up in Washington thinks CNN is fake news, so this sort of thing is basically not enforceable as intended. I guess the best policy is still "free speech".
In California, someone's put forward a bill to outlaw fake news. You and me would look at this and say "well, hey, Breitbart, Infowars, The Blaze, and Red State is now illegal", but right now number 45 up in Washington thinks CNN is fake news, so this sort of thing is basically not enforceable as intended. I guess the best policy is still "free speech".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)