Re:‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for C...
by schoen on Monday September 25, 2023 @12:46PM
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There are lots of good reasons for Apple to avoid a defamation lawsuit about this.
(1) Streisand effect (mentioned by another commenter) - it would generate tons of free publicity for their opponents.
(2) Civil discovery - the defendant would get to demand access to Apple's internal e-mails about this issue in order to try to prove its case.
(3) Possibly losing - even though this feels obviously intended to make people believe false things about Apple, a court might accept that there is some interpretation of "allows" and "complicit" that are protected criticisms of the company under some jurisdiction's defamation standard.
(1) Streisand effect (mentioned by another commenter) - it would generate tons of free publicity for their opponents.
(2) Civil discovery - the defendant would get to demand access to Apple's internal e-mails about this issue in order to try to prove its case.
(3) Possibly losing - even though this feels obviously intended to make people believe false things about Apple, a court might accept that there is some interpretation of "allows" and "complicit" that are protected criticisms of the company under some jurisdiction's defamation standard.