People like this have to be punished very quickly, very disproportionately, and it has to be very clear exactly why they're being punished. It would still take decades to break their side of it, but you can accomplish massive cultural shifts like what happened in Singapore if you have the will to do it.
It also has to be publicised far and wide. Make everyone fully aware with zero doubt that defamation will not be tolerated.
The one danger is if it gets weaponised to silence whistleblowers and legitimate ethical journalism. Truth is only a defence and you can still be found guilty of defamation despite everything you say being true purely because the other side has the most cash. Something we've seen to some extent with the abuse of YouTube's copyright system being abused to silence critics who hit a raw nerve or told the truth about someone that the other person does not want the public to hear and see.
It does subversion well. It sets up common tropes that you'd expect to see in a fairy tale and turns them on their head in clever and satisfying ways. As opposed to the common: "You're stupid and bad for expecting reasonable and understandable returns for our setups!"
"But muh heckin' magic words!"
People like this have to be punished very quickly, very disproportionately, and it has to be very clear exactly why they're being punished. It would still take decades to break their side of it, but you can accomplish massive cultural shifts like what happened in Singapore if you have the will to do it.
It also has to be publicised far and wide. Make everyone fully aware with zero doubt that defamation will not be tolerated.
The one danger is if it gets weaponised to silence whistleblowers and legitimate ethical journalism. Truth is only a defence and you can still be found guilty of defamation despite everything you say being true purely because the other side has the most cash. Something we've seen to some extent with the abuse of YouTube's copyright system being abused to silence critics who hit a raw nerve or told the truth about someone that the other person does not want the public to hear and see.
They already silence whistleblowers and legitimate journalists. We might as well try silencing screeching seditious activists too.
*laughs in Boeing*
I haven't read/seen it, but I've heard Ranking of Kings (Ou-sama Ranking) is pretty good.
I should check it out now.
It's a good manga that reads like a classical children's fairy tale
It does subversion well. It sets up common tropes that you'd expect to see in a fairy tale and turns them on their head in clever and satisfying ways. As opposed to the common: "You're stupid and bad for expecting reasonable and understandable returns for our setups!"
Ah, yes, the Brian Clevinger method. In his words, "The best jokes are the ones played on the reader."
Like a queen dowager stepmother who loves her stepson just as much as her own biological son.
And I'll fund the thermonuclear cleansing of the Indian subcontinent.