This whole discussion got really interesting really fast.

bear in mind that i spent a number of months last year learning about libel-defamation laws in canada and how they apply to me, as an american and as an american running an american company that has audiences in other countries.

in the course of understanding how speech laws differ country to country (and maybe by province as well, in canada), i have a lay business but very incomplete knowledge of the legal landscape. my knowledge is limited to the legal advice i've sought and gotten on the subject.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

It's never easy, and as Gawker found out even when you think you are right a judge and jury can get it wrong. Even if you are proven right under the law in the long run, being right is still very costly. Being wrong just costs more.

throughout most of my tenure running this reader community (16 years) my focus has been less on what is legal or perilous, more on what is decent and civil. we don't run reddit. or gawker. we host speech that is less sexy, because decency is boring.

people want to talk about what happens when a person serves a ban and comes back to race; or when a transgender triathlete wants to use the changing tent of his or her gender-ID. speech is sacred; but speech impacts the subjects of that speech.

so far, knock on wood, focusing on free but decent and civil speech has served as a pretty good proxy for speech that is also safe and unactionable.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

Looks like now when you hit delete on ones posts, they are now 100% gone. :)

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