Fake information penetrates every corner of life, "Internet freedom" is no longer a reason to refuse supervision

The development of the Internet has become more advanced, and "fake news" and fake information have also sprung up.

Chief Executive Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor publicly stated on May 4 this year that the government is studying and enacting a "fake news law" to deal with the "spreading of inaccurate information, misinformation, hate speech, and lying on social media."

This unsurprisingly raises doubts, saying that this move will suppress "freedom of the Internet", "freedom of speech" and "freedom of the press."

However, when fake information fills the Internet in different ways, supervision is absolutely imperative.

An Indian "News" reported by New Delhi TV stated that a study found that "cow urine" can help fight the new coronavirus. It is recommended that you take a certain daily dose to defeat "pneumonia"-I believe Hong Kong readers will laugh at it and ridicule each other by the way Blindly listen to "rumors"; but in India, even Pragya Singh Thakur, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) congresswoman, also publicly called on the public to drink cow urine to fight the epidemic, saying that "cow urine is life-saving." Earlier, religious organizations held a "cow urine party" with more than 200 people.

On August 31, 2020, citizens continued to "mourn" outside the Prince Edward Station.

The police are heavily guarded.

(Photo by Ou Jiale)

Readers in Hong Kong believe that the information is a "rumor", probably based on our scientific knowledge, and we will question the claim that "cow urine is anti-epidemic" from common sense, which lacks medical basis; but what's interesting is that we do not always maintain such an objective view of information. Reasonable, so the problem of false news and false information is also rampant in Hong Kong, and some are as ridiculous as "cow urine fights the epidemic"...

For more details, please read the 288th "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly Newsletter (October 25, 2021) "It

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