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If there ever was such a country, would people want to live there? And if they wouldn’t, doesn’t that just mean it would change? I can’t see how some form of f
by alkonaut 4y ago
If there ever was such a country, would people want to live there? And if they wouldn’t, doesn’t that just mean it would change?
I can’t see how some form of free speech absolutism would even function.
As for the size of the damages: in the US, weirdly, rich people pay more damages because I assume it’s also a way of making them stop committing the crime and not simply compensation for damage done.
- budder 4y agoYes, I think people should be able to tweet things like “masks do/don’t” work without being able to be sued. It’s the same thing with covid. It was made illegal to question it
- lovich 4y ago> It’s the same thing with covid. It was made illegal to question it It was not
- dolfine 4y ago
- int_19h 4y agoYou can tweet "I believe that ..." all you like and not get sued.
- budder 4y agoIs that really enough to avoid being sued for defamation?
- int_19h 4y agoIt's a bit more complicated than that, but fundamentally, defamation involves a "false statement of fact". Weasel wording that would be understood by a "reasonable person" to imply facts can be defamatory even if the verbiage says "opinion", so it may require more careful language to stay on the safe side, but I can't think of any opinion that couldn't fundamentally be expressed at all.