Should This Site Be Allowed To Disseminate False Information?

[Clive Evans]

Thor seems to think he can with impunity.

[Long slender neck]

Yes

[BoniO]

Everyone knows that 99.9% of what Thor writes is made up BS so it's no big deal.

[Long slender neck]

Thor seems to think he can with impunity.

What information are you talking about?

[ComeOnYouOs]

This thing about what is these days referred to as fake news, really bloody annoys me.
Trump started all this fake news crap.......basically anything he didnt agree with was labelled fake news.
If a society genuinely wants to call itself a free society, then nothing must be censored, and the people will make their own opinions about what is presented to them

[Long slender neck]

There is a lot of genuine fake news though.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

These days its difficult to differentiate between the genuine fake news and the fake fake news.

[WGC O]

Is this thread fake news? I'm confused

[Disoriented]

These days its difficult to differentiate between the genuine fake news and the fake fake news.

Fake news isn’t what it used to be.

[Long slender neck]

You know I heard this site has some of the best fake news around, very very high quality.

[Disoriented]

“Most of us lived through the years when spam threatened to destroy e-mail. Today, democracy is being weakened by lies that come in waves and pound our senses the way a beach is assaulted by the surf. Leaders who play by the rules are having trouble staying ahead of a relentless news cycle and must devote too much effort trying to disprove stories that seem to come out of nowhere and have been invented solely to do them in.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

[tuffers#1]

I'm Thor & so is my Wife !

[Rich Tea Wellin]

As much as i dont agree with most of what he posts, he absolutely should be able to post it. It's all up for debate, as much as some people dont want to debate.

[o-no]

It's not much of a debate though is it?

Person T writes some nonsense
Person O says 'that's nonsense'
Person T says 'Wake up Sheeple'

Repeat ad-infinitum.

[slacker]

It passes the time, and a bit of tin foil hat gubbins usually raises a smile.

[DuvB]

This thing about what is these days referred to as fake news, really bloody annoys me.
Trump started all this fake news crap.......basically anything he didnt agree with was labelled fake news.
If a society genuinely wants to call itself a free society, then nothing must be censored, and the people will make their own opinions about what is presented to them

Everything annoys you. Especially boarders who support the Club.

[Dohnut]

There is a lot of genuine fake news though.

Went shopping down some market in Hong Kong. Watches were advertised as genuine imitations. Can’t argue with that.

A Rolex for a fiver, and it works.

The point being we don’t need a thread to warn us about some of the nonsense we read. Fake news, the new normal.

[Dunners]

Some of the fake news is better than the real news, IMO.

[ComeOnYouOs]

This thing about what is these days referred to as fake news, really bloody annoys me.
Trump started all this fake news crap.......basically anything he didnt agree with was labelled fake news.
If a society genuinely wants to call itself a free society, then nothing must be censored, and the people will make their own opinions about what is presented to them

Everything annoys you. Especially boarders who support the Club.

Bit unnecessary that, especially as Ive been supporting the club a lot longer than you have!!!!!

[Long slender neck]

There is a lot of genuine fake news though.

Went shopping down some market in Hong Kong. Watches were advertised as genuine imitations. Can’t argue with that.

A Rolex for a fiver, and it works.

The point being we don’t need a thread to warn us about some of the nonsense we read. Fake news, the new normal.

But you cant compare a fake rolex with say, a fake nurse on twitter trying to influence an election.

[tuffers#1]

It's not much of a debate though is it?

Person T writes some nonsense
Person O says 'that's nonsense'
Person T says 'Wake up Sheeple'

Repeat ad-infinitum.

I've never said Sheeple !!

[Long slender neck]

Also, it's the users doing the dissemination, not the site.

[Dohnut]

Do women fake it more than men?

[Omygawd]

I was talking to Rupert Murdoch about the whoppas on this site and he said that he didn't understand why people would make things up.

[Thor]

I was talking to Rupert Murdoch about the whoppas on this site and he said that he didn't understand why people would make things up.

Fake news that never happened.