Yeah, certainly not in the US. The basic elements of defamation under US law are that someone has a) made a false statement of fact b) to a third party (directly or via publishing it) c) that injures someone's reputation d) and was acting negligently or with malice
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Replying to @iridienne @sschinke and
I went into a deep dive about this once because of people recklessly throwing words like "libel" around and it is in fact established precedent that one lawyer saying about another lawyer "He's a shitty lawyer who should never be hired" is not libel
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sschinke and
Yup. There are four things which can under some circumstances constitute "per se defamation", and those are accusing someone of: 1. having committed a crime 2. having a "loathsome disease" 3. malfeasance wrt their trade or profession 4. having committed serious sexual misconduct
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
And note, saying that someone is a stalker is not, contrary to Jesse's claims, accusing him of the specific criminal offense -- colloquial language still exists. Dude is creepy and follows trans women around the internet, keeping an enemies list & complaining to their employers.
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Replying to @TGIFalcon @iridienne and
Burns' employer was not "letting" Burns do anything. She talked about Jesse on her personal twitter account. Her employer was not publishing her opinions about Jesse. And again, Doyle's pronouns are they/he.
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Replying to @sschinke @TGIFalcon and
This guy has been repeatedly and persistently misgendering Jude and it's really telling. He'll stop for about two tweets when he's called on it directly, and then go right back to it.
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Replying to @TGIFalcon @iridienne and
And then twenty minutes later you did it again It's not out of ignorance, you know and just keep fucking it up anyway
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TGIFalcon and
I'm sure you'll turn around and say this is accusing you of "thoughtcrime" "I can't HELP that I mentally categorize trans people by their birth-assigned gender and remembering to change it before I speak is a laborious mental process" I don't care, you're an asshole
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I mean I don't see you accidentally calling Jesse "she", or me How mysterious
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