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Good points David. They could also just put a cap on damages like Europe does. 10x the average salary plus legal fees as the maximum award. The best solution would be setting the burden of proof on defamation and libel so high that no lawyer would bother wasting their time with any cases unless there was definitive proof of damages. This protects everyone's speech, and limits legal warfare. Saying something false, unknowingly isn't defamation or libel. And if it's true, then it also can't be either. Malone filed suit without any proof of any damages, on the contrary he's made out like a bandit financially, and has only offered further evidence that the Breggins' claims about him might be true by filing the suit, and the things he's admitted on podcasts about his connections to the intel community and work for DoD. An innocent man would have laughed at and mocked them, or invited them for a chat. But his fifthgenerometer (controlling people's perceptions of him) is working well, even on good citizens. Proof is in this piece alone, the least popular of anything I've published in 18 months.

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