Disinformation content will be penalized. Sites like oral.sk should feel it

Today’s borderless form of freedom of expression and expression of one’s own ideas will soon receive the necessary regulation. It hits false information, even in the form of a crime.

Criminal punishment as a sufficient threat

Today’s design and distribution of any content seems almost limitless. It is not a problem to set up your own website, it is not financially demanding and start publishing. I can start writing what comes to mind, the current time suggests that tens to hundreds of websites are full of “scientific experts” who publish their ideas on the subject of Covid-19. However, they are not real scientists, they are people who share or produce a lot of false information on a daily basis, often referred to as misinformation.

A typical example is the oral.sk website, the background of which the infosecurity.sk server managed to find, including the person behind it. An attempt at anonymity did not help him either. We will help you with a classic example of misinformation, which is commonly spread through websites similar to oral.sk. It is enough if a comprehensive report is published to intimidate or frighten people, regardless of the circumstances of the case and the whole context. These are simply not suitable, so the announcement from oral.sk is as follows: “IT’S STARTING !!! The 42-year-old Australian rapper mocked protesters against experimental mRNA injections. He died of a heart attack 28 days after the 2nd dose of Pfizer injection. Like a huge number of other suicide mRNA gamblers. ”

Even if many people say, let everyone write what they see fit, no one has to read it, it’s not the right view. The Slovak Ministry of Justice, under pressure from similar excesses as the aforementioned disinformation website, has prepared an amendment to the Criminal Code. It will introduce a new definition of the crime into the Slovak environment “Dissemination of false information.“The proposal is already available to the public and its wording will therefore make the following definition of a new criminal offense affecting disinformation sites and their creators:

“A criminal offense will be the production or dissemination of knowingly false information which is liable to cause serious concern to at least part of the population of a place, endanger the lives or health of people or influence the population in deciding serious matters of societal importance.”

Not just production (own creation) but enlargement will also be considered a criminal offense, if it fulfills all the characteristics of this new crime. Depending on the severity of the consequences, the sentence can be up to ten years in prison. However, the police are not idle either, set up its own for the purpose of combating hoaxes social space, where it publishes and warns against sites that spread false information. On the other hand, he adds that the punishment is not very effective and that a new crime should change this as well.