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Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV

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Am 07.08.2015 um 17:05 schrieb Kaz Kylheku:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.programming.]
> On 2015-08-07, Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:
>> Am 07.08.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Johannes Bauer:
>>> On 07.08.2015 09:48, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   From an article of Glenn Greenwald
>>>> (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/20144/02/24/jtrig-manipulation)
>>>> I found the following interesting paragraph:
>>>
>>> Which has to with with programming exactly *what*?
>>
>> I just wanted to call attention to the phenomenon of defamation
>> which unfavorably affects the discussion atmosphere in many groups.
>
> Why don't you pause to lookup up "defamation" in an English dictionary?
> Now what you've used the word several times, it is high time to formally
> introduce yourself to its definition.
>
> Defamation means that someone utters or writes something false about you which
> damages your public reputation. (Uttered defamation is "slander" and written
> defamation is "libel".)
>
> Defamation would occur if someone announces that, for instance, he has seen you
> steal something from a store. Some members of the public believe it, and so
> your reputation is tarnished.  The announcement only defamation if it isn't true.
>
> "You're an idiot" isn't defamation; it's clearly just an opinion.  Such an
> opinion can be a justified, evidence-based comment on someone's recent
> output in a network forum.

I like to ask the general readers of the groups to remember that the
issue I quoted unfortunately exists in the world, each time when they
see arguments in the groups that are personal attacks and have nothing
to do with objective discussions. They could then better build their
own opinions about whether such personal attacks are indeed justified.

M. K. Shen

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JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-07 09:48 +0200
  Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-08-07 09:57 +0200
    Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-07 14:03 +0200
      Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-08-07 15:05 +0000
        Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-07 18:20 +0200
  Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-08-07 14:51 +0000
    Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-07 19:18 +0200
      Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-08-07 21:57 +0000
        Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-08 10:25 +0200
          Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-08-08 19:57 +0200
            Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-08 22:14 +0200
              Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-08-09 12:23 +0200
                Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-09 22:04 +0200
                Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-09 22:08 +0200
                Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-11 17:15 +0100
      Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-08-08 10:12 +0200
        Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-08 10:36 +0200
          Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-08-08 15:25 +0200
            Re: JTRIG, SIGDEV Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2015-08-08 22:15 +0200

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