[Old Sarge]

defamation, which is defined as the action of making a false spoken or written statement damaging to a person's reputation.

AKA most threads on FR.

[sauropod]

To truly support free speech, one has to accept that some people will say and publish things he finds deeply offensive.

That already happens, Walter. The Left offends me greatly.

It is people that talk like I do, write like I do, and think like I do that are being muzzled.

[Buttons12]

Defamation is criminalized, but should it be? That question might be best answered by asking: Does your reputation belong to you? In other words, are the thoughts that other people have about you your property?

Good grief. This from WW?

The question might better be answered by asking: Is a lie about you not fraud, of which you are the principal victim?

[Vaduz]

Future burger flippers hate free speech.