• LiteralGrill
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      @Even_Adder @alphacyberranger Unrelated, but wow does it feel cool seeing an article I wrote years ago randomly liked when I check out the Fedi on a random morning!

      While it has never been confirmed to be the case to my knowledge, a LOT of folks thought it was for sure.

      • @Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I think you laid it out pretty well. There was no motivation given, the people were just bad because they were bad. It didn’t sit well with me, and a short while later I found all this and the pieces fell into place. It’s pretty ugly stuff and the kind of thing you issue a retraction for, and to my knowledge there is none.

        Edit: Bro had to be aware of the problems and let it go to print, then on air with no alterations.

  • @ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
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    Just for a tweet from 2 years ago? Seems a little extreme. Was this person that influential that people actually started thinking this?

    • @Mango@lemmy.world
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      105 months ago

      Japan has really strict defamation laws. You can somehow get in trouble just for staying verified facts if they make someone look bad. Japan is fucked.

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        If you can verify a fact its not illegal unless in very specific circumstances.

        Calling someone a pedophile without any proof and just because you hate them is very obviously not ok and will get you in legal trouble in almost every country in the world.

      • @Susaga@sh.itjust.works
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        25 months ago

        Slander is spoken. Written, it’s libel.

        And there’s a difference between libel and stating facts about someone that they don’t like. I can’t say for certain which those tweets are, especially since I can’t actually read them right now.

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        You may as well sue everyone then, especially on the internet and even more so on Twitter. To sue randos on the internet as a famous person because someone said something bad about you is just wild and petty, unless it did considerable harm to your reputation.

        • @BonerMan@ani.social
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          15 months ago

          Calling other people pedophiles without anything backing that would get you a lawsuit even in USA, in every other country in the world much more so.

          Its good that you cant just talk whatever shit you like about a person, especially regarding such extreme topics like pedophilia.

        • @Kuinox@lemmy.world
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          15 months ago

          It’s not because internet become the wild west that bringing law is “wild and petty” defamation is illegal irl, and on internet.