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Re:Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic Abou... by dylan604 on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:56PM (#25639989)
>- Now Twitter, Facebook and YouTube can spread defamatory information about anyone without paying a similar price.

Is that necessarily true though? If someone spews libelous content on Twitter, are they not individually susceptible to being sued for libel?

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Re:Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic Abou... by anfilt on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:09PM (#25640143)
you can sue the individual. Look at what happened to elon musk for just saying “pedo guy”.
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Re:Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic Abou... by baud147258 on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:40PM (#25640428)
And Musk was found not guilty. And you can't 'just say' that another person is a pedophile, that's a serious accusation
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Re:Sixty Minutes Episode Is Pure Misleading Moral Panic Abou... by anfilt on Monday January 04, 2021 @07:45PM (#25640481)
The US has a high bar for defamation/slander because the 1st amendment. Also musk could higher decent lawyers.

Even then he still was sued, the case was not tossed for lack of standing or merit. The judge still thought there was a case worth arguing.

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