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   On 13/02/2024 07:09, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 13:51:29 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >   
   >> There is an old Latin quote. "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes"?   
   >>   
   >> It means "Who will guard the guardians?".   
   >   
   > This is why we have things like “checks and balances” and “rule of   
   law”,   
   > to govern how we live together with others who may disagree with us, in   
   > peace.   
   >   
   > Online misinformation is a whole new can of worms.   
      
   Well it was only a matter of time after we had built the Internet, that   
   it would become a whole new medium for the propagation of carefully   
   crafted bullshit. And a lot of it outside of governmental control for   
   the first time.   
      
   Which is why democratic governments are busy passing laws to limit its   
   use for anything except the carefully crafted state mandated bullshit.   
      
   It won't end well, and it will remind people of why there used to be a   
   balance between their Lord's temporal - the judiciary - their Lords   
   Spiritual - the Church, and the actual pragmatic government, which was   
   electable, in charge of keeping the peace and protecting the realm, not   
   of engaging in moral dictatorship.   
      
      
      
   --   
   “Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of   
   other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance"   
      
       -  John K Galbraith   
      
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