You can't deliberately libel specific individuals. For example, you can't say that Mr. Brown writes bad checks and abuses his wife if it isn't true, because it would be an injury to his reputation.
You can't incite others to commit specific acts of violence or other crimes. For example, you can't lie and say that a pedophile lives at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, and we must all gather on the night of June 11 to burn his house down.
You can't commit acts of fraud. For example, saying untruthfully that you are a prince of Somalia and that you would like someone to hold $100 million dollars for you, for which you will reward them handsomely, but they must first pay you a thousand dollars.
One more ... on most forums, you cannot speak the truth. For example, pointing out that niggers are of subnormal intelligence and will never be able, as a race, to function at the level of Western civilization.
However, if Mr. Brown is a public figure, it's nearly impossible to prove defamation. This is why speculation is so rampant in the media, and there's rarely any punishment. Tabloids can print falsehoods until they're blue in the face; all they have to do is get someone to say that something is true: such as by paying them money.
For instance, I'm sure there are people on reddit calling Matt Gaetz a pedo, pervert, cheater, prostitute-user right now. They're allowed to speculate based on shit the NY Times made up.
if Mr. Brown is a public figure, it's nearly impossible to prove defamation.
Yes, in America public figures are fair game in the press. Not so much in England, however.
remove the requirement to prove intent. It's almost impossible. Only require proving harm. Otherwise it gives free reign to literally destroy entire nations and peoples entire lives with weaponize propaganda and large scale monopolized media.
strict interpretation of slander only
make slander a felony, and remove corporate protection (executes go to jail. companies dont get to hide behind "personhood" and only pay a penalty. I'll believe corporations are people when the u.s. executes them regularly for fraud).
The media would lose its fucking shit. There would go their entire business model.
Lies, slander, fraud, and defamation.
Free speech is a right. There is no right to commit fraud and slander. It's singularly whats destroying our ability to have a functioning government, and leading to riots and murder because of the campaigns the media is behind.
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