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Careful with that though, as we saw with the covington kids, if powerful interests want to slander AND libel you, they will drag you kicking and screaming into
by genericone 5y ago
Careful with that though, as we saw with the covington kids, if powerful interests want to slander AND libel you, they will drag you kicking and screaming into the spotlight. Now you are a public figure, now you are fair-game, but they've always seen you as fair-game, they just needed to manufacture justification.
And that's just how minors are treated.
- kelnos 5y agoThat's absurd, though. It's pretty easy to determine when someone passes the threshold from private/unknown citizen to public figure. If the alleged slander/libel happened before that point, it shouldn't matter that they've since gained notoriety. Based on your example, I guess that's not how it always works, but there's no reason in principle why the laws and legal standard around it could not be fixed to be more fair.