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throw_m239339 on Oct 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter to ban political advertising

> We have rules against slander, defamation, libel, blackmail and leaking secrets, technically they are speech.

slander/defamation/libel aren't criminal laws. It's civil law.

That's why the Covington Catholic School kid has to sue "trusted" liberal outlets which allegedly defamed him in a civil court for instant.

chillwaves on Oct 31, 2019 [–]

How did that turn out?

burfog on Oct 31, 2019 | [–]

It's ongoing. He had been stopped on a technicality related to deadlines, but a new ruling by the court gets him past that.

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