Everyone loses, as is tradition and probably deserved where anime is involved.
This is only mitigated by the fact that some on the other side seem awful in every way. (Give that people so readily believed them, maybe many were tired of the whole pious christian holier than thou attitude coupled with trying to fuck everything that walked by?)
This should be a given based on the website on which I'm posting with the multiple lawsuits trying to take it down by attrition, but maybe it should be hard to sue someone over something they said. Don't like what someone's saying about you? Say shit about them. Defend yourself in public if they're lying. Or challenge them a duel, whatever (that shit needs to be legal), but don't drag the power of the state and federal government into it unless you can prove your case and not fuck it up while you sit around stroking your own ego on streams. Which the plaintiff and his counsel couldn't.
Everyone being defamed all the time is better than lawfare. Making it easier to sue people for speech won't make the shitty system better.
I agree to a point. There's two problems, though - first, normal people are deceived into believing that law
is a mechanism for redress of valid grievances, so they're not equipped to deal with outrageous and obvious defamation like this. They still think someone is coming to rescue them (granted, that's pretty naive). Second, what useful mechanisms for getting your pound of flesh actually exist anymore? You can't challenge a cad to pistols at dawn - the challenge itself is ridiculous to everybody else and only hurts your credibility (see Tonka, the Gunt, or any other internet toughguy), and if you insist on it convincingly enough, then the bugman law will intervene against
you. Maybe the "virtuous" liars using defamation to defend themselves from the defamation of dishonest liars will balance out somehow, but I don't like it. I can't say I've given enough thought to it to be objective about it, but it seems wrong to me.
I completely agree that in a more ideal world not under bugman rule, dueling would absolutely be a component of a more polite society. That's a platform I could get behind.
Edit: to the point that KF is under siege by vexatious litigation, I can concede that there's some potential validity to systemic safeguards against frivolous lawsuits implicating obviously protected speech, but there's another factor in that equation. It's broke retards who are permitted by other elements of the system (
in forma pauperis) to keep suits going perpetually instead of getting checked immediately for being a time-vampire and barred from doing it again. Ideally, there should be some distinction between what greer and the mountain jewess are doing, and what Vic did. Not a lawyer, so maybe I should stay on my lane on such issues.
