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> No one can sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL In the USA, you can absolutely be sued for this. The plaintiff is unlikely to win, and you could
by dreamcompiler 2y ago
> No one can sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL
In the USA, you can absolutely be sued for this. The plaintiff is unlikely to win, and you could probably get the case dismissed if you convince a judge that's it's clearly an opinion, but you'd still have to pay a lawyer some fees.
People can sue you for anything.
The first amendment doesn't protect you from lawsuits. It protects you from the government putting you in jail for speech.
- hatefulmoron 2y agoI don't really get why people point this out. Yes, you can be sued for anything. But what are you actually suggesting? That you do nothing, ever, because you could be sued for anything? Or are we just doing the same old nitpick?
- lesuorac 2y agoThey point it out because there was an explicit claim to the contrary. "No one can sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL. "
- Teever 2y agoA charitable interpretation of that claim would be that 'No one can successfully sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL.'
- hatefulmoron 2y agoPointing out that the statement is false in the most uninteresting literal sense is just odd. Sure, you can be sued for that in the same sense that you can be sued for eating a croissant. Glad we got to the bottom of that.