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Crazy in what way? Can you show me a precedent that shows that state agents are immune from the typical ramifications of defamation?

• SamReidHughes 8y ago
  Making true statements is not defamation. If they do want to lie, the general legal concept that protects the government is sovereign immunity. You can only sue the government for libel if they let you. It's crazy because the government has to be able to make true statements that hurt others' reputation in order to do a lot of stuff that it does, or simply to publish information openly. For example, imagine a document justifying choosing one paving company over another.
  • jMyles 8y ago
    Well, presumably if it was a section 1983 matter you'd sue the individual state agent, so I don't really see what sovereign immunity has to do with anything here. And yeah, so again, back to the original comment: presumably you or I are just as free to do things like you've listed. If I choose one paving company over another, I can publish my reasons for doing so. I can even offer to remove that post is the latter pays me to do so (this is essentially Yelp's business model, right? gross.) So how will the system treat this as different?