You are assuming a company with offices and employees and assets made up libelous claims whole-cloth and then published them in a country with stricter libel laws than the United States. Be serious for ten seconds. That is an absurd premise.
“No one would Crime because you might get punished for Crimeing!” is a take, certainly.
I don’t know what the facts are, but ISTM this is like a story from Gateway Pundit or OANN. It’s not guaranteed to be false, but I want it from someone more reliable.
Exactly. And I didn't see a single person in that thread defending Gaiman. I saw "Hey, this is coming from one extremely suspect souce. Maybe we should be cautious with this."
But apparently caution is offensive to some people 🤷♂️
I trust RS way more than I trust an unknown (to me) media source w/skeevy connections. But it's not doing any reporting on its own, just quoting the same source.
"Famous Old Dude Exploits Fame/Power For Sex" is utterly plausible. The bar is low. Someone's got to be doing original reporting on this.
I couldn’t look away. It’s just been the same circle over and over.
Y U NO believe women?
I do but this article doesn’t provide any quotes and summarizes people’s (not provided) statements. Want to see some verification.
Ocams razor/they wouldn’t lie. Thus you don’t believe women.
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It’s really simple. Allegations have been made, and I take them quite seriously. The next step is verification of the report. There are 19 words in the article directly attributed to one of the victims, otherwise it’s tortoise summarizing the victims experiences and gaimans response to tortoise.
so just to be clear what I laughed at was the idea that people don't just make shit up even if it's potentially defamatory which was the point of that post so what are you talking about
Sure, we're talking about Neil Gaiman sexually assaulting two different women, and some very weird people are going 'well actually the source reporting it is bad so they're not even real' even as people are going 'no I know at least one of them this is true'
people on this site are literally saying they know one of the women and she told them about it as well, yes, unless you wanna cut to the chase and say the women themselves are making this up
Weird thing is, Britain doesn't just have "you said something mean which violates this standard that would never fly in America" cases - they still have "making crap up" cases! This one (where the source committed fraud) ended up killing a publication.
en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
Some major outlets just repeated the claims, others investigated properly and published "the dude was totally making crap up" stories three years into it, plus Scotland Yard wasted a *lot* of time/effort (and harassed the falsely accused) operating under the assumption it was all true.
