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I take that to be enabled by the English rules on libel. As far as I know, Americans are limited to striking people off party lists (Quinn v. Buckley), veiled t
by cafard 3y ago
I take that to be enabled by the English rules on libel. As far as I know, Americans are limited to striking people off party lists (Quinn v. Buckley), veiled threats of fisticuffs (Mailer v. Simon) and letters of complaint--what Paul Fussell referred to as the ABM, the Author's Big Mistake.
- ghaff 3y agoIn the US, it's mostly limited to knowingly publishing errors of fact with the bar even being higher if the subject is a public figure. But, yes, as I understand it, libel is quite difficult to get a judgement against in the US.
- rsynnott 3y agoAs mentioned in the article, there was a big one in the US (it went to the Supreme Court!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Moldea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Moldea
- BobaFloutist 3y agoI mean the Wikipedia article says that the superior court changed their mind and declared it to not be libel (and the Supreme Court said "Yeah they can do that."), so the precedent is still that it's pretty hard to (successfully) sue someone for libel.