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Just be glad you can't; libeling the dead is a crime by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/11/2013, 5:35am PDT
Eurotrash wrote:

Title: Somebody photoshop Steve Jobs' AIDS riddled dick on that photo, NAO
I can't be bothered to attempt it in ms paint.


You know, libeling the dead is a crime in some parts of the country. Saying someone had a loathsome disease constitutes libel. So someone who likes Steve Jobs goes looking for you and then has you charged. You had better be able to prove he had AIDS or you're in trouble, if they want to go that far.

One guy said some unflattering - and untrue - things about George Washington in the state that bears his name. A prosecutor there tracked down the guy and went after him. He did get jail time for it. It's considered really unfair to libel dead people because they can't respond when you say untrue things that are bad about them that unjustly ruin their reputation.

Yeah, you can almost certainly get away with it, but some people find out the hard way that someone else didn't like them lying about something they liked and really took umbrage at what they said.
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And I just realized something. "We are the dreamers of dreams." by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/08/2013, 11:49pm PDT NEW
    That's it. Ima go get a shitty old Macintosh now by Eurotrash 06/09/2013, 1:52pm PDT NEW
    You like appreciate your Mac because you are able to live in the past NT by Entropy Stew 06/09/2013, 2:25pm PDT NEW
        I know the differrence between Bullshit and shoe polish by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/10/2013, 2:27pm PDT NEW
            Somebody photoshop Steve Jobs' AIDS riddled dick on that photo, NAO by Eurotrash 06/10/2013, 3:04pm PDT NEW
                Just be glad you can't; libeling the dead is a crime by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/11/2013, 5:35am PDT NEW
                    Fortunately, Denmark is a very liberal country. Steve Jobs died of AIDS. by Eurotrash 06/11/2013, 1:13pm PDT NEW
                        "Steve Jobs died of AIDS." Yeah, prove it! by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/11/2013, 3:18pm PDT NEW
                            Caltrops: Spergelord of the Flies by Entropy Stew 06/11/2013, 3:24pm PDT NEW
                            Yeah, the Bob Hope thing was just a straight up lie and you know it by Eurotrash 06/11/2013, 11:16pm PDT NEW
                                No, I don't know it was a lie by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/12/2013, 6:12am PDT NEW
                                    I have AIDS and me and Steve Jobs used to go to the same AIDS clinic. by This was around 1979-1980. 06/12/2013, 6:50am PDT NEW
                                        Re: I have AIDS and me and Steve Jobs used to go to the same AIDS clinic. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/12/2013, 7:46am PDT NEW
                                        Oh, and another thing Mr. Alleged AIDS sufferer by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/12/2013, 10:24am PDT NEW
                                            Re: Oh, and another thing Mr. Alleged AIDS sufferer by fr33p3er 06/12/2013, 4:56pm PDT NEW
                                    Re: No, I don't know it was a lie by Eurotrash 06/12/2013, 11:48am PDT NEW
            Actually, mission control, gestures, fullscreen apps, etc. changed the interface by Entropy Stew 06/11/2013, 2:39pm PDT NEW
 
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