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If they are sharing true facts, they can harm your reputation anytime they want. Individuals can harm other people's reputation with true facts too. Defamation
by joshe 8y ago
If they are sharing true facts, they can harm your reputation anytime they want. Individuals can harm other people's reputation with true facts too.
Defamation/slander/libel is only when someone harms your reputation with false facts. It's hard to win defamation suits.
Doesn't make it nice of course. But not every cruel thing is illegal.
- jMyles 8y ago...but then isn't that true for everybody? If this is indeed extortion on the basis that it is demanding money under threat of harm to reputation, then isn't it equally true when the state does it? That was the original point above.
- URSpider94 8y agoInterestingly enough, blackmail statues usually apply even when the information at issue is TRUE. Read the article I linked to elsewhere -- it opens with an interesting comment that blackmail is a paradox -- it's criminalizing a consensual transaction between two people, regarding otherwise Constitutionally protected behavior.