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Lula says “fake news” reigns supreme in Brazil's municipal elections
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva insisted this weekend that “fake news” had been widely used as a campaign tool ahead of Sunday's municipal elections nationwide. “We are seeing a great amount of 'fake news', a great number of lies, of provocations,” Lula stressed. “Now there are candidacies that have no commitment other than to provoke, to tell lies,” he also pointed out when casting his vote in Sao Bernardo do Campo, in Greater Sao Paulo, where he developed his trade union and political career since the 1970s. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“I was quite sure you'd sidestep the issue.”
Oct 14th, 2024 - 01:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://en.mercopress.com/2024/10/09/de-moraes-allows-x-back-in-brazil/comments#comment531941
Moraes is completely in accord with the best legal practise of preventing a prima facie libeler from benefiting from his own wrongdoing; under the guise of 'free speech'. Whether, it is on behalf of himself or a third party, all are held to the tenet of “do no harm”.
”... its deployment has now extended to other areas including bioethics more broadly, education, the environment and internet ethics. It is held to apply to the decision-making of all actors, from individuals and corporations to governments and their regulators.
The canonical statement on harm occurs in JS Mill’s Essay ‘On Liberty’ where he sets forward ‘One very simple principle’. In summary form this reads:
‘The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of their number, is self-protection…the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others’.
On Liberty (1974), pp. 68-69, Penguin Books.
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Game, set, and match.
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