re: #472 Greengolem64

So, then you are agreeing that it is OK to knowingly and willfully lie and slander/defame politicians or public individuals…because they are public individuals.

I don’t disagree with your idea about ‘chilling effects’ with respect to criticizing our politicians…but are you saying we cannot criticize and question without having the ability to lie and defame?

Surely we are better than that…

GG

I don’t think I made any statement about my personal feelings regarding this practice, much less that I think it is o.k. And it is possible to defame a politician. However, proving this is incredibly difficult, and I think it should be. Put it this way, if it were easy to prove defamation, I’d guess political blogs, or at least blogs which allow a great many people to post on them, would cease to exist, or would exist in a very sanitized form.