"Rowling has made it clear that she can no longer be trusted around children". I was 20 years a journalist. I know, without question, that statement is over the line. It's not presented as an opinion.
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Replying to @paul_smortions @MFnP and
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 @paul_smortions @arthur_affect and
English defamation law is a bootlicking mess, completely unworthy of a free people in a free nation (but then again, post-Brexit England does not qualify). Only a potential plaintiff, or a member of the House of Lords (but I repeat myself), or their lawyer, could love it.
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Jfc was his little snipe there to claim that billionaires have more power to quash criticism in US courts? Well then let's see it then Why hasn't JK threatened to sue any Americans Come at me Jo, I dare ya
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ccommack and
Part of it is jurisdictional. It's hard enough to sue someone in another state and much harder to sue someone in another country. She has money and reps that could do so, but the burden of proving harm across boarders is much higher.
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Replying to @BlueEterlin @ccommack and
This isn't really the deciding factor by itself considering Nicola Spurling is Canadian
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