| As you chose to ignore my advice I'll expand on it for you so that you can avoid a straw man - intentional or not - with your next reply, because the one you just gave is embarrassing: - Read some of what advocates of freedom of speech have written. If you're able to find someone advocating the freedom to lie to whomever one choses or about whomever one wants without restriction, you've hit the jackpot. Bring back a flying pig while you're at it. - English common law (and hence American) already includes some types of lie as protected speech(see [1] for a primer and [2] for more examples from America). Hence, both the idealists and the pragmatists are well ahead of you here. Finally, this: > Like the media or police for example? Why should there be a law against lying to the media? That made me chuckle. Or did you mean by the media? Also a laughable notion. Shackling the press for the common good is almost a cliché in a dictator's playbook. As to the police, why lie to the police when you shouldn't talk to them at all?[3] You have a right to silence (or did, in the UK) since hundreds of years back (which is itself another aspect of free speech). That video also covers how the police are legally permitted to lie to suspects and routinely do, so whichever question you intended based on brazenly displayed ignorance of the subject at hand, it's been covered. I suggest you begin here, with On Liberty https://www.bartleby.com/130/index.html [1] https://law.stackexchange.com/a/132/11158 [2] https://www.standleague.org/newsroom/blog/freedom-of-speech-... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE |