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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9699795" data-attributes="member: 42856">I guess it depends on where you live. I don't know of many places where printing, posting or telling false things is enough to be prosecuted, absent additional specific circumstances, even voluntarily. One might be found liable, but an outright ban is uncommon. I'd love to have examples of the contrary, but yes, generally just having a website that spews false things isn't punished. Or we could fine people for saying the Earth is flat.That's what many countries do. Their view of free speech isn't defined by the first amendment of the US constitution, and they generally had a long debate on who can be prosecuted for press-related offenses on written media first, and then the Internet. Several countries hold the editor of the website responsible for what is written, irrespective of the author, because it's propagating the illegal message that is sanctionned, not creating it (so it's of little interest to determine if it can be attributed to the person using the service, or the company selling the service).Same here, but on the basis that it doesn't enter one of the known categories of regulated speech, and long debates have been held to determine exactly what is tolerable speech (even if unethical or wrong or dangerous or simply because one doesn't like them) and what is banned, with no two countries having the exact same lines (blasphemy being protected speech in some countries and deemed too offensive in others, for example among many others), so the matter is considered settled.</blockquote>

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