• Melllvar@startrek.website
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    Imagine if you opened a restaurant, and I went around lying to everyone that you spit in the food. As a result, your restaurant loses business. Shouldn’t you have legal recourse to prevent me from spreading such lies about your business, and to recoup the losses you incurred?

    I don’t mean to suggest that Musk has a valid case under the law, only to point out that the law in question is actually quite reasonable and necessary.

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      1 year ago

      Mmm your example is already really common, and most of the target restaurants are the most profitable in the world.

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          1 year ago

          As a result, your restaurant loses business.

          “the most profitable in the world.”

          It just dont work the way you say it does.

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            1 year ago

            Whether the restaurant remains profitable is beside the point. If you can demonstrate that even one customer chose not to visit your restaurant as a result of my lies then I could be liable for defamation.

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              1 year ago

              Yeah im the one that came in here saying it was against the law. Its a bad law. The most profitable business in the world clearly has not been harmed.

              But it should be.

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                As I said, I’m not suggesting that Musk’s claim is reasonable. I’m saying that the law he purports to have been harmed under is reasonable.