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Twitter is safer in America
Published: 19 November 2012
Two men this week confronted unproven sexual accusations that may ruin their reputations.聽 The incidents, which took place on different sides of the Atlantic, raise questions about how the law should respond when social media wrongly labels someone a paedophile. They also showed why free speech laws are better in America. [鈥 鈥淭he English law has been completely fixated on reputation and undervalued the public interest in free speech, and has been unwilling to protect the media against good-faith mistakes,鈥 according to an email from Professor Stephen Scott, a constitutional law expert at 9I制作厂免费. 鈥淭his has not only been in the context of defamation, but in book/magazine, theatre and cinema/video censorship.鈥
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