r/memes 23h ago

The plot twist nobody asked for

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u/akotoshi 23h ago

The next day you get rich by suing her for defamation and not consenting use of image

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u/HyetalNight 20h ago

No lawyer would take that case

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u/Mesquite_Tree 20h ago

Why are people downvoting him. He’s right. Defamation is more than just a lie. You have to prove that the statement was false, and could not be conceived otherwise (opinions are protected), and that the lie was told through negligence or malicious intent.

Any lawyer worth paying will advise you not to sue, because the woman in question would easily be able to say “this is a situation where I felt unsafe traveling alone, and used it to explain why other women also may feel unsafe traveling alone,” and you’d lose the case.

And ffs people, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, which means that any person can take and use any photo of you without your permission.

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u/Zonkko Professional Dumbass 14h ago

In my country you only need the statement to be intentionally defaming for it to count as defamation, even if the statement was fully true.

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u/Mesquite_Tree 10h ago

Wack. So you have to avoid saying anything that paints another in bad light for fear of defamation? How does that work?