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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: JEDR, Templeton, and the law
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Date: 15 Dec 88 02:45:52 GMT
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In article <8386@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth Gordon) writes:
: Besides, a libel suit would cost JEDR a lot of money and time, even if
: he won the suit.  To impose such a penalty on him, only for posting some
: articles and talking to some reporters, sounds like... censorship.
: Amusing, eh?

No, not amusing.  Merely irrelevant.

Consider the consequences of prohibiting suing a person for libel:
the lack of remedy when one is libeled.  The alternative is that some
people will be put to the trouble of defending themselves against
suits, even if not at fault.

Though that latter might be a kind of censorship, the former is far
worse, eh?

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Bill
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