On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, John A. Tamplin wrote:
So under that analogy, if a magazine was started up called "Walmart Sucks" I am pretty sure Walmart would go after them and win. If you disagree with that analogy, then we are each entitled to our opinions until the law is clarified.
If I believe (meaning I have a deep personal conviction) that WalMart is a giant evil sucking hole that has ruined large swaths of rural america by driving small businesses out of town, why am I not protected by the First Amendment if I choose to publish (paper/web) a magazine whose mission is to publicize the negative impacts on society that WalMart has? Assume this publication is targetted at small businesses and has helpful hints for staying in business and editorial content that portrays WalMart in a negative light. Why can I not then call this publication "WalMart Sucks", or "Beating WalMart"? What could more accurately and fairly describe what one finds inside the site/magazine? It really feels more like an issue of bullying to me. Charles core-1(config)# ip route 209.10.214.20 255.255.255.255 null0 core-1(config)#
Reminds me of the latter days of Usenet usefulness when the name of a newsgroup was a statement itself rather than any articles posted under it.
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