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Nobody will recognize the authority of the Internet Court of Lies.

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Robert Thibadeau
Nov 1 · 5 min read

Thanks for this public opinion that nobody will recognized the authority of the Internet Court of Lies.

Hopefully this article resolves why I would disagree that nobody will recognize its authority. Basically, you probably already have recognized this authority, and do all the time, because it helps you all the time. Aside from the Internet Court of Lies case management system itself, there is little new here.

If you go into the detail of filing a suit, you would find that the plaintiff has to supply evidence for his suspicion that a lie has been told, including his suspicion, if any, that the liar knows it is a lie, and what his/her/its motivation may have been. This includes a trail back to the original liar, again with evidence, if the plaintiff can. The burden is on the plaintiff who by default is also anonymous unless he/she/it has also chosen not to be anonymous.

So, yes, all this court does is bring the light of evidence on a fiat lie in order to convert it to a folk lie that is put to public dialogue.

The wikipedia entry pointed to is publicly indexed through Wikipedia. But the suit and court’s wikipedia entry that identify and classify the specific lie are provided by the private Internet Court of Lies under license to social media that can refer a lie to a Wikipedia entry under the Courts’ copyright of its private links. These are organized to make it easy for social media to be notified, or for it to search on a lie the social media company suspects, or has been alerted to by a plaintiff.

In effect, this a truly privately run public court that only tries lies, not people, and only puts the light of moderated public dialogue on the fiat lies in order to have them understood as folk lies. To the extent that truth, intent, and motive can be documented in the public dialogue process, the Court gains authority. A suit will continue indefinitely unless a suit is explicitly removed by decision of the Court.

As the book says, Politifact, The New York Times, FactCheck, and so on are referenced in these court suits. The Internet Court of Lies is NOT a fact checking or truth checking organization except as it may pertain to dialogue on the pages it owns for the purposes of dialogue moderation.

The existing fact checking organizations do a great job. Our job is to provide a way that people can get fast satisfaction of their desire to expose a liar, do the work in assembling evidence, and pay of the costs of the court to moderate and keep publicly available records some of which are licensed for use by social media and research organizations.

Robert Thibadeau

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Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com

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