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To: cosmicforce who wrote (56148)	8/31/2002 12:51:24 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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

To: cosmicforce who wrote (56148)	8/31/2002 2:51:21 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Why would it not be slander (or libel)? Saying that about anyone except the few it is true of appears to me to be prima facie slanderous. And it would almost certainly be a TOU violation. The only situation where it wouldn't be would be if the person had publicly posted such on SI. Even then, SI Admin might call it harassment.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (56148)	8/31/2002 3:04:31 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The person hasn't been damaged. There is no linkage to the REAL person. Like X said, dead people who WERE real can't be slandered, then how the hell can someone who was NEVER real be slandered? I'm not getting this. Can you slander Super Mario? Here I'll try - Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig live together in San Francisco performing sex acts with under age partners. There... no slander (speech) or libel (writing) can produce a provable harm against any set of fictional character identities. Now if I said the same of Mel Blanc (if he was still alive) or his son, then there would be a libel. What's not to get?