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“WHAT IS TRUTH?” ROMAN ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION OF “FAKE NEWS”
Author(s): Jakob Fortunat StaglSubject(s): Civil Law
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: freedom of expression; authoritarian politics; legiferation;
Summary/Abstract: Citing examples from Antiquity like the trial against Jesus Christ and the politics of Caligula, the article analyses the dangers of legislation against “fake news “. Being a limitation to free speech and the first step to a totalitarian political system, the author is against such kind of legislative activism.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai - Iurisprudentia
- Issue Year: 65/2020
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 934-954
- Page Count: 21
- Language: French