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To: dschapin
Good. We should have Euro style laws where a wronged party BEFORE publication can get an injunction. All copies of paper or mag are sequestered until a trial. If libel, press has to destroy all copies AND pay plaintiff's legal bill. If no libel, plaintiff must pay all defendant's legal bills and the value of all printed stick with the story.

This prevents the BIG SLIME (followed by the p 10 small print retraction).

18 posted on 02/27/2016 10:09:30 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

You can’t sequester electrons. It ain’t happening. Freedom of speech will prevail unless you implement firing squads. And even then, Samizdat and other news outlets still operated. Oh, and any change in libel laws will sooner be used to make publication of Biblical passages illegal than to make criticism of politicians illegal.


65 posted on 02/27/2016 10:32:54 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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