in court cases they have suppression orders to prevent sensitive information jeopardizing the outcome of a trial that are enforced on all types of broadcast media with an emphasis on the fastest and most voracious of them all - the internet. News can spread like wildfire and can generate strange derivations of information as it spreads.
the other day I was told about something about information pertaining to the impending presidential election and all news about that information had disappeared. Maybe there is a new term to describe this phenomenon. Not so much that we are dealing with the rules of evidence but the rules of information. The strange thing is, with the scant information I had been given so far, I didn't have the chance to form any kind of view, rumor or otherwise.
It's happened to a number of articles, but it begs the point that what is the point of doing this? Markets aren't going to crash or a multitude of outcomes manifest themselves as a result. Some nonce in the office of an internet service provider or some social media page is currently dictating what I can't see.
for what reason and based on what authority? Is there some risk that I can make an informed view of my own? From information?
remember that nickname for the internet all those years ago? What was it called? The information super highway.
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