The "Sucks" Thread

[Captain Chaos]

serious question. If someone says "someone sucks" is that considered slander or libel?

as in "Captain Chaos SUCKS!"

 

[The Gear Movement]

Maybe they suck

Who could say that someone with the name

CAPTAIN CAOS

sucks?... killer name bro!

 

[Anonymous]

Common abuse is not libel.

 

[Anonymous]

and either way, slander is spoken work, libel is written word and generally would need to be malicious, false and defamatory to quantify as libel...

Really it would be down to you to prove that not only was the statement, malicious (easiest one to prove), defamatory, but youd have a harder job proving it was not true...

hence the reason common abuse is not libellous

 

[flyor64]

and either way, slander is spoken work, libel is written word and generally would need to be malicious, false and defamatory to quantify as libel...

Really it would be down to you to prove that not only was the statement, malicious (easiest one to prove), defamatory, but youd have a harder job proving it was not true...

hence the reason common abuse is not libellous

hmmm...I learned something new today