Whether or not someone can be trusted is an opinion.
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No it isn't. You can have an opinion on it, and you can voice that opinion. But if you state it as a fact you invite consequences. Had Spurling started with "in my opinion" or "I question whether" then she'd have been rather safer.
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Replying to @paul_smortions @Azuaron and
That's not what the honest opinion exemption says, at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Azuaron and
What can I tell you, that's how it works in practice. There's an old episode of HIGNFY where they start almost every sentence with allegedly to make the point.
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Replying to @paul_smortions @Azuaron and
In practice if a billionaire really really wants to sue you for libel in the UK they get whatever they want That's kind of the whole issue
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Azuaron and
Ridiculous. UK courts are nothing like the US version.
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Replying to @paul_smortions @Azuaron and
Uh... yeah, they aren't, in that they are notoriously favorable to the plaintiff in a defamation suit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Azuaron and
I'm a journalist, in the relevant legal jurisdiction, who's family owns a legal practice. You're in the US and once won a game show
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Yeah it makes it all the more embarrassing that I'm right and you're a bootlicker doesn't it
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