• ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
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    1 month ago

    Just for a tweet from 2 years ago? Seems a little extreme. Was this person that influential that people actually started thinking this?

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        1 month ago

        Slander is spoken. Written, it’s libel.

        And there’s a difference between libel and stating facts about someone that they don’t like. I can’t say for certain which those tweets are, especially since I can’t actually read them right now.

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        1 month ago

        You may as well sue everyone then, especially on the internet and even more so on Twitter. To sue randos on the internet as a famous person because someone said something bad about you is just wild and petty, unless it did considerable harm to your reputation.

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          It’s not because internet become the wild west that bringing law is “wild and petty” defamation is illegal irl, and on internet.

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          1 month ago

          Calling other people pedophiles without anything backing that would get you a lawsuit even in USA, in every other country in the world much more so.

          Its good that you cant just talk whatever shit you like about a person, especially regarding such extreme topics like pedophilia.