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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
Cyber-libel comments would be making things up about a player that are not true with a malicious intent. If it's a common thing to site a player out and about in the same locations that offer the specific services that a player has been seen using over and over and has even been punished for by the team in the past wouldn't be considered Cyber-libel . It would be a speculative opinion based on the facts at hand and forming an honest opinion with out malicious intent. At that point it would be up to players lawyer to prove that those statements are out right false with the intent to due harm .
So far the comments I have seen would fall under Fair Comment.
Also a website can't be sued for slander. Slander is oral .Libal is written .
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So you are also prepared to pay for the legal costs?
Look folks - this isn't your risk to take on. It isn't mine. It's Bingo's.
He runs this site and if the site runs into problems - he pays for those problems.
So if you want to talk about Johnny - please do so. But if folks are going to continue to post speculation about him engaging in illegal off-ice acts - we will have to lock it down.