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Does u/spez not realize the bar for libel in Canada is lower than the USA? The dev is Canadian and could file there right?
by buildbot 3y ago
Does u/spez not realize the bar for libel in Canada is lower than the USA? The dev is Canadian and could file there right?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- bgc 3y agoMaybe so, but regardless of the facts this would almost certainly not be worth pursuing… In the US, courts are generally prohibited from enforcing foreign libel judgements against US persons if the country in which the judgement was won has looser libel standards than the US.[0] (IANAL) [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act
- buildbot 3y agoYeah no idea if that would apply or not. But Canadian code I was looking at was the criminal code - there might be a difference between civil and criminal libel here.