Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News network tried to justify telling lies on the basis of free speech, and ended up paying $787m because ‘lies have consequences‘.
Meanwhile, many US parents want to ban books to ‘protect’ their children, forgetting that the internet exists and children don’t read books anyway.
To celebrate Utah’s new Sensitive Materials in Schools Act, one parent wrote in to demand a ban for ‘one of the most sex-ridden books around, the bible,’ which is packed with ‘incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide.’
‘Get this PORN out of our schools!’, wrote the parent. ‘If the books that have been banned so far are any indication… this should be a slam dunk.’