Re:Is it wise to criminalise lies?
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @12:26AM
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>forcing companies or people to shut up so as to not say something they might not consider to be a lie, but that may later be qualified as one //
Lies and untruths/falsehoods are different. A lie is something you know to be false but claim to be true in order to deceive. You can be factually incorrect without lying.
Such errors can still cause defamation of course but they lack the mens rea of lying.
Lies and untruths/falsehoods are different. A lie is something you know to be false but claim to be true in order to deceive. You can be factually incorrect without lying.
Such errors can still cause defamation of course but they lack the mens rea of lying.