[Chapter-delegates] Urgent suggestion

[Joly MacFie]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch <
apisan at unam.mx> wrote:

> 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.



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.

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