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https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-298.html https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-298.ht... u/spez is likely violating the C

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-298.html https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-298.ht... u/spez is likely violating the Canadian libel laws... Edit - Note this is not civil libel, this is the criminal code.

giraffe_lady 3y ago
It's the guy that used privileged DB access to edit the content of other users' posts. Absolutely not trustworthy to any degree it blows my mind that he is still there.
- buildbot 3y ago
  I mean that's shitty and unethical, but probably not criminal He's violating Canadian CRIMINAL code now!
akiselev 3y ago
> Canadian Who cares? I'm not being flippant: what jurisdiction - especially criminal - does Canada have here?
- buildbot 3y ago
  The Apollo dev is Canadian
- spiffytech 3y ago
  The Apollo developer is Canadian. Though Reddit is an American company, and I'm not sure what the rules are for cross-region lawsuits.
- tenpies 3y ago
  I suspect that most Redditors just had rapid expertise emergence (REE) in the subject of international law, with a specialty in Canadian libellous extradition. Let's review the facts: Spez is an American citizen in the United States - a country famous for its Freedom of Speech. Good luck to anyone who wants to make the case that because he may have been slanderous to a Canadian citizen he should be extradited to face Canadian courts.
  - pseudo0 3y ago
    The SPEECH act is specifically designed to protect Americans against libel tourism, so good luck getting a Canadian judgement to apply in the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act
dgrin91 3y ago
Even if Canadian laws applied here, which they don't, its not clear there is any libel here. I'm no fan of spez or what Reddit is doing, but it seems like the Apollo guy made some not clear messaging as well. He's only human, I probably would have made the same mistake, but it gives plenty of leeway for spez's comments. Reddit explicitly doesn't care if Apollo dies, they have already done their calculus there, but they don't seem to be in any significant risk of libel.

giraffe_lady 3y ago

It's the guy that used privileged DB access to edit the content of other users' posts. Absolutely not trustworthy to any degree it blows my mind that he is still there.

buildbot 3y ago
I mean that's shitty and unethical, but probably not criminal He's violating Canadian CRIMINAL code now!

akiselev 3y ago

> Canadian Who cares? I'm not being flippant: what jurisdiction - especially criminal - does Canada have here?

buildbot 3y ago
The Apollo dev is Canadian
spiffytech 3y ago
The Apollo developer is Canadian. Though Reddit is an American company, and I'm not sure what the rules are for cross-region lawsuits.
tenpies 3y ago
I suspect that most Redditors just had rapid expertise emergence (REE) in the subject of international law, with a specialty in Canadian libellous extradition. Let's review the facts: Spez is an American citizen in the United States - a country famous for its Freedom of Speech. Good luck to anyone who wants to make the case that because he may have been slanderous to a Canadian citizen he should be extradited to face Canadian courts.
- pseudo0 3y ago
  The SPEECH act is specifically designed to protect Americans against libel tourism, so good luck getting a Canadian judgement to apply in the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act

dgrin91 3y ago

Even if Canadian laws applied here, which they don't, its not clear there is any libel here. I'm no fan of spez or what Reddit is doing, but it seems like the Apollo guy made some not clear messaging as well. He's only human, I probably would have made the same mistake, but it gives plenty of leeway for spez's comments. Reddit explicitly doesn't care if Apollo dies, they have already done their calculus there, but they don't seem to be in any significant risk of libel.