on 2012-07-31 16:50 AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne wrote
I don't know if my impression of USA is accurate, but it comes across to here as offering no legal protection against slander to any person that is deemed, by some apparently magical consensus, to be a "public person". Seems no less worthy of a medal to me.
it's not that simple: in the US, an action against a defamer of a public figure must show "actual malice"
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