Libel chill: Difference between revisions

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:Yes. Initial plans are to use RCI to avoid libel suits.
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Because of the nature of its work revealing corporate abuses, the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] can expect to very often be the target of such chill.  Hopefully it will not pre-emptively employ libel chill as Wikimedia does, but will have a proper legal strategy to avoid publishing libellous statements by contributors (but especially not by officers and directors, as often happens at [[Wikimedia]]), and another proper strategy to avoid using any self-escalating tactics like the above.
Because of the nature of its work revealing corporate abuses, the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] can expect to very often be the target of such chill.  Hopefully it will not pre-emptively employ libel chill as Wikimedia does, but will have a proper legal strategy to avoid publishing libellous statements by contributors (but especially not by officers and directors, as often happens at [[Wikimedia]]), and another proper strategy to avoid using any self-escalating tactics like the above.
:Yes. Initial plans are to use [[RCI]] to avoid libel suits.
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