> end defamation lawsuits that silence critics and leave it up to reputation and the market How can anyone rely on reputation in a world where there's no accou

> end defamation lawsuits that silence critics and leave it up to reputation and the market How can anyone rely on reputation in a world where there's no accountability when people systematically and mercilessly destroy someone's reputation? Even most people who oppose copyright and patents still seem to understand that trademarks serve a singularly critical role in permitting a free market to operation. But the existence of trademarks necessarily require the ability to sue those who violate them. The same is true of reputation--reputation has no meaningful substance if the law does not provide a means for people to defend it. Without legally (i.e. community) enforceable accountability, a person's reputation is whatever the most powerful person or group says it is. That's literally a world where might is right; where free market is synonymous to law of the jungle.