Now Germany Wants To Criminalize Fake News
Found on Techdirt on Monday, 19 December 2016
We've already seen authoritarian countries with long histories of punishing and silencing dissent jump on the "fake news is a problem!" bandwagon to justify heavy handed censorship. Both China and Iran have pointed to "fake news" as a reason for new internet censorship plans.
Over in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has now endorsed a proposal to criminalize publishing fake news.
Good luck enforcing that when servers and operators are outside their jurisdiction.