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Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by Lazare on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:14AM (#20612547)
> I believe that the 8chan case still violated what's the defamation/slander bar in the US

That's not how libel law works in the US, or indeed, in the UK. It applies to specific statements of fact about specific people, and does not cover opinions. For libel law to apply, you'd need specific false statements of fact about specific named people that led to damages to those named people, eg, "John Smith has done X, Y, and Z deplorable acts, and someone should kill him", which someone then read and proceeded to kill John Smith. In this case, of course, the conduct would violate a ton of much more serious laws (that is squarely in one of the exceptions to the first amendment, for obvious reasons!), and to the extent that the above conduct did not happen (and as far as I know, it did not) libel law is simply one more of the many laws that don't apply.

Not all things which are against the law are evil. Not all evil things are against the law. Just because you really think something is evil does not mean that if you look hard enough you can find a relevant law.

Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by gspetr on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:05AM (#20613392)
If you wish to deplatform based on broadcasting a killer's message then a lot (probably almost all) of newspapers would have to be closed.

Consider Zodiac killer's letters or Breivik's manifesto. If copycat killers arise saying they were inspired by reading their letters/manifestos in San Francisco Chronicle/BBC respectively, should these media outlets be closed and/or deplatformed?

This seems to be no different than wanting to ban/close car manufacturers for 2016 Nice truck attack in France, leaving 87 dead.

Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by djsumdog on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:07AM (#20612518)
> defamation/slander bar in the US

Those are civil issues, not criminal.

Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by jai_ on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:48AM (#20612700)
I don't understand why defamation and slander are not classified as a criminal issue.
Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by dsfyu404ed on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:47AM (#20613705)
Because giving the government the authority to regulate such a broad and contextually defined category of speech is basically an end run around the principals of free speech
Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by Nasrudith on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:33AM (#20614024)
Because it is abused to turn speaking truth about power into a crime. "Toughening up" libel laws is one of the steps dictators take to secure power from people who do things like point out they are dictators.