The former head of the then-Australian Broadcasting Authority has expressed concerns over the federal Parliament’s attempts to legislate “truth” into all political advertising, a move that comes amid disillusionment with political discourse in general, as well as information censorship around issues like climate change.
David Flint, also a constitutional law professor, said it was not “possible or desirable” to legislate truth.
“The problem with regulating truth can be seen in the abuse exercised by some social media platforms in removing material and advertising claimed to be ‘misinformation,’” he told The Epoch Times in an email.
“It will be recalled that during the 2020 U.S. general election, news concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop was disallowed and suppressed on the ground that it was Russian misinformation, a conclusion supported in writing by an array of ‘security experts,’” he said….