Re:Who's Behind the Swat USA Reshipping Service?
by voxic11 on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:00AM
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Krebs is legally liable for what they publish, so if they are incorrect and it costs this person then they can sue for defamation and recover their losses from Krebs. This is how we hold people responsible for what they publish while avoiding prior restraints on speech.
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Re:Who's Behind the Swat USA Reshipping Service?
by Sanzig on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:24AM
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Exactly. Krebs isn't an anonymous troll on 4chan, he's a well-respected computer security journalist publishing under his own name.
If he got it wrong, he'd be facing a lawsuit. He's also incentivized to retract and apologize in that case to preserve his credibility as a journalist. Very different story than an unaccountable anonymous troll with a grudge on Twitter/Reddit/4chan.