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“WHAT IS TRUTH?” ROMAN ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION OF “FAKE NEWS”

Author(s): Jakob Fortunat Stagl
Subject(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.

  • Issue Year: 65/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 934-954
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: French
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