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...each one perfectly tailored to fit someone’s worldview.
"Propaganda has always existed. In ancient times, a town crier would climb on a stump and deliver whatever the ruler decreed. But at least everyone heard the same lies. Now we each get custom-fitted delusions, perfectly calibrated to our psychological profile.
"The algorithm has become our leash, and we mistake the length of chain for freedom.
"[Every customized opinion] belongs to someone who considers himself well-informed, rational, and awake to what’s really happening. Each one thinks the others are deluded, manipulated, or evil. Each one has evidence that supports his worldview. Each one feels like the protagonist in his own story.
"They can’t all be right. But they can all be wrong."
-- Brownstone Institute
Attorney Robert Barnes has reviewed French President Macron's libel complaint against American podcaster Candace Owens, and concludes that Candace recklessly went too far in her public pronouncements and is in serious trouble. His comments:
"The First Amendment heavily shapes libel law in America immunizing opinions that do not imply facts, statements that do not reference an identifiable individual, and claims made with a good faith basis and due regard for their truth remain. Other privileges or immunities may exist depending upon the jurisdiction, including the fair reporting privilege concerning governmental bodies, anti-SLAPP procedural protections, and the like.
· "A good start to assess how courts will likely construe the law on any given topic is the pattern jury instructions courts commonly issue as guidance for trial judges to explain the law to juries. To prove libel of a public figure requires: a statement made to a third person (“publication”); the statement could be...
"We have slipped back to a point at which living faith is shrinking, but the culture that grew out of Christian faith still exists for people as a system of coordinates: what is good, what is bad, what to think about male–female relationships, family, children, parents, responsibility, our neighbours, ourselves, what sin is, what virtue is, what punishment is, what forgiveness is."
-- Viktor Orban, PM of Hungary, Champion of Western Christendom's Reconstruction
