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I'm not sure "your honour, it's so obvious that we're scammers that we can tell as many lies as we like and do whatever we like with people's money" has a parti
by notahacker 4y ago
I'm not sure "your honour, it's so obvious that we're scammers that we can tell as many lies as we like and do whatever we like with people's money" has a particularly high success rate as a legal defence...
- michaelt 4y agoPresumably elbigbad is thinking of cases like Tucker Carlson [1], Elon Musk [2], Sidney Powell [3], and Elon Musk again [4], all of whom have successfully defended themselves in court by claiming no reasonable person would have believed what they said. I don't know whether such a defence would work for cryptocurrency scammers - it's certainly not the lowest risk option IMHO. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case-tucker-carlson-2020-9?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-musk-lawsuit-idUSKBN1YA13U https://www.reuters.com/article/us-musk-lawsuit-idUSKBN1YA13... [3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/23/sidney-powell-trump-election-fraud-claims https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/23/sidney-powel... [4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/03/elon-musk-tesla-investors-lawsuit-twitter https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/03/elon-musk...
- notahacker 4y agoBig difference between libel claims being ruled non-serious and "it's not crime if the people we stole from should have expected our statements to be fraudulent" though. (And it's not exactly a low risk defence for libel and defamation either. It worked for Alex Jones until it didn't)