<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apisan@unam.mx" target="_blank">apisan@unam.mx</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A final note: the general global trend, recommended by many international instances, is to treat defamation only under civil law and not under criminal law. That is a further limit to the abuse of the criminalization of speech and opinions as a means to
exert power and control, while it does seem to leave room enough for people to defend against real defamation and slander. </blockquote></div><br><br>The downside of this is, of course, that civil courts tend to favor those with the deepest pockets. Theoretically criminal courts are above such concerns.<br clear="all">
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