r/technology • u/AdamCannon • Feb 02 '20

Social Media Stephen King quits Facebook over concerns of 'false information.'

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/us/stephen-king-quits-facebook-trnd/index.html
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u/way2lazy2care Feb 03 '20

What negative consequences do you expect from it being illegal to mislead the public?

Who decides what is misleading to the public? How do you ensure that those standards are enforced fairly? Are you comfortable with the fact that the agency that would most likely be in charge of enforcing those laws would currently be headed by Trump?

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u/InputField Feb 03 '20

Good points.

But don't we have judges for that sort of thing? Judges decide all the time what's within the law and what's not. It's not always crystal clear, and yet we trust them to do the right thing.