Posted by Lou Pilder on August 19, 2003, at 19:00:56
Friends,
For the past years, I have objected to types of posts that I consider to have the potential to be defaming to me or another poster.
There are more types of defamation than just the classic type of defamation called [per se] defamation.
Defamation [per se] has the defamation clearly visible and is already been determined to be defamatory on its face, like the following:
Such and such is a child-molester
Such and such is a convicted felon.
Now the above are defamatory on its face because lableing someone as a child molester could damage that person's reputation and cause him great harm, lets say, if he was a dentist.
The same with saying someone is a convicted felon, unless they are a convicted felon. And that can be discovered. The truth, in general is not defamatory, and a person's reputation must be of good report to claim defamation. Charles Manson and Adolf Hitler could not claim defamation.
But there are other types of defamation statements that are not per se.
Lou
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