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Originally Posted by mikesouth
Free speech is and should be absolute
however that should NOT indemnify you from the consequences of your actions.
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there's a lot of things people do that has consequences on others that are not legally actionable... There's also a difference between opinion, insults and malicious lies that can be proven false... Take a site like PerezHilton who often claims that this or that person is a slut or skank... Photos and reported behavior of those people tend to support the legitimity of that opinion... Even if it hurts the persons' reputation, should we be not allowed to make those type of observations or offer those opinions?
p.s. I haven't read the blog discussed in this thread so I am not necessarily defending her but haven't read anywhere in the articles where it mentioned "malicious lies"..