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Who decides who is lying?

If the media and government are in bed today, won't that get worse when the government can arbitrate what truth is harming the not mainstream media?



At this point I think the best chance of implementation would be something like the Board of Labor, OSHA, or some open source bug reporting where specific lies can be be reported and fined/punished for. Maybe random audits like the IRS. I'd like the determination to lie with the public, but the issue is coupling determination from enforcement given how intertwined information control is with power.

Right now? It wouldn't work. It's an angry pipe dream.


A ministry that decides on truths? I wonder what that could be called!


The Ministry of Lies, obviously.

Point taken.


Tbh I wasn't really making a point, I just thought it was a funny association


It's a point and a good one: It got me to think of the purpose of said angry pipe dream and if it was a productive use of my time!

Also I always love a good Orwell reference.




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