Remember Bojo. The court literally pointed out that parliament had passed no law banning lies to the public.
And without a good several million votes clearly at risk no parliament is likely to do so.
But at the end of it. Parliament is required to pass such a law for the courts to have any say. Even then it would only apply to speech outside parliament itself. Parliament is in charge of anything said during parliament.
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FelixCress@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Irrespectively of this instance and in general: public lying with an intention to mislead the public should be a criminal offence. Full stop.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
Remember Bojo. The court literally pointed out that parliament had passed no law banning lies to the public.
And without a good several million votes clearly at risk no parliament is likely to do so.
But at the end of it. Parliament is required to pass such a law for the courts to have any say. Even then it would only apply to speech outside parliament itself. Parliament is in charge of anything said during parliament.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 1y
Maybe a hierarchical political system requires lying to exist. Humans don’t tend to accept hierarchies otherwise.
(My conclusion is fuck hierarchical systems obviously, not trying to say lying is a “necessary evil”)
FelixCress@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I disagree with that.