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> This would basically allow anyone with deep enough pockets to police speech using the courts. Which, tbf, the US and UK already have to some degree.
by zimpenfish 7y ago
> This would basically allow anyone with deep enough pockets to police speech using the courts.
Which, tbf, the US and UK already have to some degree.
- ashtonkem 7y agoWhich is what I was thinking of. But there is a big difference between the U.K. and America here; in the U.K. if you lose a litigation, you have to pay your opponents legal bills. In America the cases where the loser must pay are very limited with high bars to clear. This means that it’s absolutely possible to bankrupt someone in America with frivolous lawsuits, so long as those lawsuits aren’t bad enough to trigger the limited exceptions.