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I wish I could buy this, but you really don't want it to be illegal to say "politician X is a murderer", because they started a war or denied food to orphans or something. I don't know if there's a viable way to draw the line between that and the case in the article. (Note: safety from crazy people who believe the claim doesn't work, since people are definitely going to go after politician X.


In the US, public officials have to prove actual malice to win a defamation claim to avoid this sort of scenario.




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