• @Xcf456OP
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    21 month ago

    Yeah I can see the intent of it and I think it does have merit, but access to the courts is expensive and therefore inequitable so it is open to ‘lawfare’ or abuse by powerful people, so you can have a chilling effect on media.

    They’ll print about JAG because they don’t see a risk of being taken for defamation I suppose? Perhaps if she threatened it it might be a different story. But again I guess they’ll weigh up their defence as part of it. This is a lot of what lawyers employed by media agencies do I guess.

    • @DaveMA
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      11 month ago

      Yeah it’s interesting stuff. On one hand the media needs to have a high level of scrutiny so we can trust it. On the other hand we are getting a biased view because some are blocking articles while others aren’t.