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budder
4y ago
Is that really enough to avoid being sued for defamation?
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budder
4y ago
Exactly. Did the Wuhan doctors sounding the alarm about a new virus, without “evidence” have freedom of speech? The CCP tried to suppress them for “inciting a panic” until it became obvious they couldn’t cover it up any longer
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budder
4y ago
Exactly. The state doesn’t need to directly destroy you financially like they do in China. They just have a legal framework that allows lawyers to do it for them. And we think we have so much more freedom in the west.
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budder
4y ago
Two main points: A) is it true? B) did it cause damages? A) after the amount of mind boggling conspiracies by the CIA NSA etc that were proven to be true, are we really going to make conspiracy theories illegal? (In this case I don’t think
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budder
4y ago
Why does making money change the legality of what he was saying?
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budder
4y ago
Yes, I think people should be able to tweet things like “masks do/don’t” work without being able to be sued. It’s the same thing with covid. It was made illegal to question it
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budder
4y ago
Would it be ok if he wasn’t profiting from it?