Posted by Lou Pilder on July 15, 2005, at 9:25:34
In reply to Re: Lou's reply to Dinah-othrscoop » Lou Pilder, posted by SLS on July 15, 2005, at 9:12:53
Friends,
It is written here,[...do you feel defamed by this?(Dr. Hsiung suggesting not to read in the first place)...]and [...look into legal recourses...]
Defamation to a person can occur when one is stigmatised. The stigmatization in most jurisdictions to be illegal is not the type of defamation that I feel, although it could be in very spacific situations.
If one put a sign up in front of a fish store owned by a ,let's say, a Vietnamese person, and the sign said something like,[...remember,it is your option not to buy fish here in the first place...], could that be defaming to the Vietnamese shop owner?
But let's go further. Suppose tht sign maker was the Mayor of the town.
Lou
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