Read my post one more time... The standards you described are what I described. No video, no audio = no speech = no slander. The article was written, hence libel. On Aug 3, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:11:17PM -0700, Cord MacLeod wrote:
I don't see a video attached or an audio recording. Thus no slander.
Libel on the other hand is a different matter.
You have those backwards. Slander is transitory (i.e. spoken) defamation, libel is written/recorded/etc non-transitory defamation. This seems like a group that could benefit from knowing those two words. :)
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