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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: cosmicforce who wrote (56148)8/31/2002 12:51:24 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
It might be slander, of "X" the alias- but is that legal slander? I don't think so. The alias "X" is not a person. A person created X, but that is about it. So it is slander of a literary creation.

libel \'li-bel\ n
2a: a written or oral defamatory statement or
representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable
impression
b1: a statement or representation published without
just cause and tending to expose another to
public contempt
b2: defamation of a person by written or representational
means

slander \'slan-der\ n
1: the utterance of false charges or
misrepresentations which defame and damage
another's reputation
2: a false and defamatory oral statement about a person
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