Punishing the dissemination of provably false information doesn’t seem that bad of a policy, if the onus of providing the proof is on the ‘punisher’. And that’s a big caveat.
But punishing unprovable, yet-to-be-proven, and ambiguous information is clearly undesirable.
And in any scenario where the onus of proof isn’t on the ‘punisher’, then it would be really deleterious, because it could easily be gamed.
Punishing the dissemination of provably false information doesn’t seem that bad of a policy, if the onus of providing the proof is on the ‘punisher’. And that’s a big caveat.
But punishing unprovable, yet-to-be-proven, and ambiguous information is clearly undesirable.
And in any scenario where the onus of proof isn’t on the ‘punisher’, then it would be really deleterious, because it could easily be gamed.