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• • Re: News media will be exempt from the requirement (Score:2)

    by Mspangler ( 770054 ) writes:

    I noticed that little point too. The MainStream Media has a license to lie.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ShanghaiBill ( 739463 ) writes:

      The MainStream Media has a license to lie.

      How do they determine if a website is part of the “news media”? Is California going to start issuing “Journalism IDs” with “License to Lie” stamped on them?

      The First Amendment states rights of the “The People”, not rights of “The Journalists”. There is no constitutional basis to give one group of people more rights to speak and publish than any other people.

      No court should allow this law to stand.
• i would like to thread jack to request (Score:2)

  by Revek ( 133289 ) writes:

  That we are given the ability to remove users from our sight. With one easy click I would like to be able strip all AC from a post. With another easy click I would like to be able to remove useless trolls who’s mothers probably had them castrated them at a early age. Their fathers have surely told them they would never be good enough and when they attempt to get a date I’m sure people just laugh or throw up. Probably throw up. But seriously slashdot. GIVE US THE ABILITY TO SILENCE THESE CRAPTASTIC LOS

  • Re: (Score:2)

    by phantomfive ( 622387 ) writes:

    Add them as a foe. They will then be modded down out of your sight.

    “Friend” and “foe” are poorly named, they should be “people I find interesting” and “people whose posts I’d rather not read”
• News Media is a stretch (Score:1)

  by CrazyCaps ( 472445 ) writes:

  That is how the masses learn about things in the first place. Yeah, some fringe people might share it among themselves, but once the media takes it and keeps reporting on it over and over, that is how the masses tend to think something is real or it could be real. Take the Hunter Biden stuff, yeah it has been proven that it had no impact on the politics there or any influence from Joe, but it gets enough people thinking that it could have happened and they just hid it well enough. And there are plenty of
• Who said it… (Score:2)

  by physicsphairy ( 720718 ) writes:

  “We believe that any speech that challenges national sovereignty and social stability is not within the scope of freedom of speech.”
• So far so bad (Score:2)

  by Impy the Impiuos Imp ( 442658 ) writes:

  Political speech is the most protected of all, up to and including deliberate lies, lest those in power become the arbiters of truth…spoken against them.

  This laughable law will be tossed 9-0 if it even gets that far.
• “satire”? (Score:2)

  by joe_frisch ( 1366229 ) writes:

  If there is a satire exemption its only meaningful if its *labeled* as satire. These days politics is often so absurd the real thing feels like satire.
• The whole point… (Score:2)

  by Z80a ( 971949 ) writes:

  Is to NOT get discovered, and get the deepfake accepted as true, so good luck.

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