Rather than “malice,” why not just allow lawsuits for “stupidity” and “lack of due diligence?”
Your post “Rather than “malice,” why not just allow lawsuits for “stupidity” and “lack of due diligence?””
That is one of the scariest and most ignorant posts I have ever seen on FR. You want someone to be able to sue for stupidity. That is like Soviet Russia where if you disagreed with the state they could simply say that you were insane and have you committed.
Not for a public figure who has put himself out there for all kinds of criticism, especially politicians. Negligence is a requirement for published misinterpretations for a private person but a higher degree of culpability, malice, is needed for published misrepresentations of a public person and rightly so because the public figure has gained recognition but has also signed up for criticism, deserved and undeserved.
Especially in this context, that of a politician, the danger isn’t in published criticism, but in dampening freedom of the press.