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I think people are missing the big legal liability .... this information has been published to the world, it contains estimates of people's deeply held politica
by Taniwha 9y ago
I think people are missing the big legal liability .... this information has been published to the world, it contains estimates of people's deeply held political beliefs - some of it will be wildly wrong and those people might consider that they have been libeled .... roll on the lawsuits
- political_tech 9y agoThe liability wouldn't be with the RNC or Deep Root; the liability would be on the entity that actually published the information. That's if you consider this to meet the legal definition of publishing (the legal definition of libel, as I understand it, is "to publish in print (including pictures), writing or broadcast through radio, television or film...").
- dragonwriter 9y agoLibel, in the US, requires the publisher to either known the claim is false ormto publish it with reckless disregard for the truth when it is, in fact, false; I don't think that there is anyway that this could be construed to meet that, no matter what legal theory as to who the liable publisher is you use.