Lawyes are vicious!!!
Sorry Mr Mantis. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your claim is that simply accusing someone of having an offensive and contagious disease is enough to prove both malice and defamation (regardless of the actual effect). Heard you the first time. Any actual cases where the plaintiff has actually won based solely on this technicality? Please share.
Anyway, this whole conversation is dumb. This lawsuit nonsense is more than dumb. But that is what trollshido is for. Endless flaming and stupid talk.
No! Damages not defamation!
It’s not a technicality, it’s the law. It goes to the elements of the cause of action. :homework:
Got it. It is the publication of a false statement about another which accuses him of having a loathsome disease which is considered so obviously harmful that malice need not be proven.
Whatever. This is still dumb. Libel in all its variations as a general rule are hard cases to win. Never mind trying to win it in a case where the only damage is to your anonymous online name.
Your anonymous online persona that claims to eat people and fuck moms.
Yes, I found that part quite funny.
Doesn’t everyone know who he is though? Would the fact that he uses his actual initials change anything?
You’re all following firebrand’s last comment which I decided not to correct him on again. Damages are not at issue (remember what “libel per se” means?)
As long as a specific person is identified, that’s all you need, it doesn’t matter what they’re called.
Please do not correct me again. When it comes to libel law, I am not your equal. (I am not worthy.) Just give me some instances where someone actually successfully litigated against someone else in “internet chat rooms” using libel per se. Not saying it can’t happen - there are extreme cases in this crazy world. But if it ever does, we are talking about a very big can of worms.
I’d be happy to search it for you, for a fee. $200 sounds good.
Pay pal it to Bullshido, and I’ll do your research.
Just saying “nuts” probably won’t do it. It has to be a contagous or offensive disease to be libel per se.
So, if you call someone “schizo”, and you mean “schizoaffective disorder” (which they do in fact have) but you just say “schizo” is that libel per se?
I mean, I don’t want to waste your valuable time, but this is mildly interesting to me, so I’m asking anyway.
Mr Mantis stated.
“I’d be happy to search it for you, for a fee. $200 sounds good. Pay pal it to Bullshido, and I’ll do your research.”
Thanks for the offer. While a mildly interesting topic, I can find other uses for my $200 (Feb and March BJJ fee comes to mind).
ICY - No, it’s not Libel Per se. Because “Schizo” is not a disease.
PS: I had no quote button for me to hit in your post. Wierd.
P.P.S. I am planning on suing Phrost soon for Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress for the emotional brain fuck that I’m getting from having to look at Trollshido.
P.P.S. I am planning on suing Phrost soon for Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress for the emotional brain fuck that I’m getting from having to look at Trollshido.
We can make that a class action I think.
P.S. I never, ever use the “quote” button, I type “[” quote"]" out so often it’s almost a single motion.
Upa Lumpa stated.
“Your anonymous online persona that claims to eat people and fuck moms.”
Hmm, truth is supposed to be the best defense. The question is if claims of cannibalism is admissible as evidence.
Well, I’m not a lawyer either, but I have worked as a journalist, and the standard I was taught was that to be “libel” something has to be:
- Published
- Defamatory by the standards of the community of the defamed, within limits
- Cause real and notable damage or have the possiblity to do so if not contained
- Believable by a reasonable community member
- Not contextualized or disclaimed as satire or humor
- Above all, it has to be false, or perhaps legally shielded, information. Truth is generally a defense against claims of libel
Am I wrong about any of the above?
This is actually an interesting thread now… Why does it have to be in Trollshido? lol
What does any of this have to do with cannabalism and mother fucking?
I’d like this thread to be merged with Sirc’s excellent ‘pimp my sister thread’, on the outside chance that his mom is hot too.