Open Access« Qu'est-ce que la vérité ? » Réponses romaines au problème des « fausses nouvelles »
Author(s) -
Jakob Fortunat Stagl
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
studia universitatis babeș-bolyai. iurisprudentia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2065-7498
pISSN - 1220-045X
DOI - 10.24193/subbiur.65(2020).4.27
Subject(s) - politics , legislation , humanities , political science , philosophy , art , law
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.