re: #290 Walter L. Newton

And how would you react if someone published a newspaper article about you being under an investigation for selling car parts to, oh let’s say, Cuba, and it wasn’t true.

How would you deal with that, especially if the reporter or the new source refused to retract the statement even after the authorities clarified that the charge was false.

What would Avanti do?

If I was a politician, I’d have to ignore it legality, but correct the statement. Not only would I have to prove it untrue, I have to prove the accuser knew it to be untrue and posted it with malice.
For a few 100 years, politicians have talked shit about each other with free speech protections.