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Every critic of those politicians would be in jail too.

• coldtea 8y ago
  Why would anybody bother to criticize them if they're going to jail at the end of their campaign anyway (as is the premise in this thread)?
  • darkpuma 8y ago
    Surely you understand that people criticize murderes who are being sent to prison; you don't question why they bother. Why would people stop criticizing a politician simply because they know that politician will be going to jail? This whole conversation has become very silly. It's plain that criminal libel is an awful idea, we can joke about silly scenarios that might unfold if people facing criminal libel charges were required to prove their innocence, but current criminal libel laws with a normal burden of proof are already being abused and doing real damage to the lives of real people, which isn't very funny.
    • coldtea 8y ago
      >Why would people stop criticizing a politician simply because they know that politician will be going to jail? They could, but it would be futile. The politician is not going to govern anybody anyway (remember, straight to jail from the end of their campaign). Besides, surely you understand that this thread has stretched a BS hypothetical.
      • darkpuma 8y ago
        > "They could, but it would be futile. The politician is not going to govern anybody anyway (remember, straight to jail from the end of their campaign)." You've a strange notion of how people behave. People still routinely criticize Bush and Obama, even though neither will ever be in office again. That's how people are.