Comment by rsynnott
1 year ago
Who are you seeing being punished for criticising organisations? In general it’s extremely difficult for an organisation to sue an individual for defamation.
1 year ago
Who are you seeing being punished for criticising organisations? In general it’s extremely difficult for an organisation to sue an individual for defamation.
I had the same question. The closest I'm aware of isn't organizations, but protected classes who can sue individuals for hate speech e.g. inciting violence against them.
Even that is usually, in most jurisdictions, far more difficult than an individual sueing for defamation. Incitement to violence is a very high bar; in practice people (arseholes) are free to lie about protected classes pretty much as much as they like. And they do.