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Originally Posted by tallrick
"the legal definition of defamation is knowingly making an untrue factual statement that could potentially harm someone's reputation"
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I'd sure like to see
that dictionary!? That's not a
legal definition.
Black's Law Dictionary:
Defamation- Holding up of a person to ridicule, scorn or contempt in a respectable and considerable part of the community; may be criminal as well as civil. Includes both libel and slander.
Defamation is that which tends to injure reputation; to deminish the esteem, respect, goodwill or confidence in which the plantiff is held, or to excite adverse, derogatory or unpleasant feelings or opinions against him. Statement which exposes person to contempt, hatred, ridicule or obloquy.
Sounds like theres plenty of room for free speech- state facts! Not twisted stories of he said/ she said.