Quote from: vphasitha01 on July 18, 2018, 07:54:48 AM

Quote from: aleksej996 on July 17, 2018, 01:44:11 PM

No authority should exist that claims to know and decide what is truth and what is not.

Actually is there any "Absolute Truth". I don't think so. Truth is also subjective and it is defined according to the standards that we prepared. It can be True for some valid standards and it can be False to another equally valid reference standard while both standards are prepared by us. I think if we can practice the habit of listening to what other peoples have to say regarding any issue which will reduce the day to day problems by big percentage. People can spread the misinformation( If we classified true information as information that are scientifically proved) but at the end of the day we are the people who decide whether it is true or false from a valid reference standards which we knew( That standard also can be amendment or revised in future). I think we should not control the "Freedom of speech" of anyone as a people who still believes in democracy. If we control the Freedom of speech then the society can be goes again to the dictatorship which we actually don't want.

So always listen what others have to say and they can be looking from a different angle where we wouldn't see. I can give you a simple example of what we have taught in our schools. They always taught us 1+1 always equal to 2 and we all are taken it is the absolute truth. But think about one drip of water sums up to a another one drip of water, the answer is not 2 drips of water but 1 drip of water.

Freedom of speech is in some western country's just a joke and a empty facade. We are controlled by powers higher than us that expressing this freedom of speech is inflicting personal problems in life. For example Facebook -> It's a very totalitarian system, where only speech which fits theirs agenda is tolerated. If you say something opposite to theirs agenda you get blocked. How is this about democracy or freedom of speech ?
Everybody has the freedom to say whatever he thinks, but this needs to be done in a respectful manner.

Nowadays i feel that, mostly in Western European country's, freedom of speech is just a show. It doesn't exist at all. We are ruled by our politicians and everything against theirs agenda will not be tolerated. What's the difference between them and authoritarian country's like Saudi-Arabia for instance ? Just in Europe they hide it very good.

Misinformation will always exist. An example an messenger sent a message to person B, the messenger is person A. On his turn person B tells the story to person C but adds some extra to the story, to make it short person Z will have a totally other story than person B. This can lead to misinformation.
But everybody has his own perception of the truth. This doesn't mean it is fake news, just the perception of the people differs.