President Emmanuel Macron's government faced a backlash Wednesday after the centrist leader called for powers to "cut off" social media in case of widespread violence like riots over the past week.
That sounds great in theory, but people generally don’t have the time and qualifications to check every statement that gets made on news sites. This is exactly why fact checking sites like Snopes.com exist. People look to trusted authorities to examine political/scientific claims because they don’t have the means to.
I agree there should be legislation in place to be able to take actions against those kinds of people, but at the same time the government isn’t the internet police.
That sounds great in theory, but people generally don’t have the time and qualifications to check every statement that gets made on news sites. This is exactly why fact checking sites like Snopes.com exist. People look to trusted authorities to examine political/scientific claims because they don’t have the means to.
The people writing the stories certainly have the time and should have the qualifications…
Or someone could be a content farm making a quick buck off fake headlines that trigger people. If not the government, who will stop them?
I agree there should be legislation in place to be able to take actions against those kinds of people, but at the same time the government isn’t the internet police.