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As you are aware, this firm represents Mercury Radio Arts, Inc. and Glenn Beck. Despite our letter yesterday demanding that you delete the defamatory Domain, suspend and/or terminate your provision of WhoisGuard privacy protection services to the unknown individual who sought to register the domain, and provide us with information identifying the unknown individual, we note that as of Friday, September 4, 2009 at approximately 6:35 EDT, the defamatory Domain remains active.
— Letter from lawyers for Glenn Beck to registrar of website; cited in — Cook, John (September 9, 2009). "Glenn Beck, PR Genius, Spreads the False Rumor He Raped and Murdered a Young Girl in 1990". Gawker (Gawker Media). Retrieved on 2009-10-04.
I'm not sure of any case where someone has claimed that a domain name was defamatory.
— Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer; cited in — Anderson, Nate (September 9, 2009). "Can a mere domain name be defamation? Glenn Beck says yes". Ars Technica (Condé Nast Publications). Retrieved on 2009-10-04.
In what looks like a first in cyber law, Beck's lawyers are arguing that the the very domain name itself is defamatory.
— Bremer, Jack (September 11, 2009). "Fox’s Glenn Beck fights ‘rape and murder’ website". The First Post (Dennis Publishing). Retrieved on 2009-10-04.
"To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile."
josé luis rodríguez zapatero— Note: Meeting in the Vistalegre Palace, Madrid, 23rd April 2007.
— Source: Nota de prensa Zapatero: "Responderemos a cada insulto con una propuesta, a cada descalificación con una idea" en la web oficial del PSOE, Ya: Zapatero al PSOE: "A cada insulto, una propuesta, a cada descalificación, una idea y a cada exageración una sonrisa"
For these reasons, I strongly believe that the Constitution accords citizens and press an unconditional freedom to criticize official conduct. It necessarily follows that, in a case such as this, where all agree that the allegedly defamatory statements related to official conduct, the judgments for libel cannot constitutionally be sustained.
— Justice Arthur Joseph Goldberg, decision, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Supreme Court of the United States, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
In Rome much pamphleteering took the form of verses and songs, circulated orally, or of libelli , defamatory placards or broadsheets (whence our word "libel").
moses i. finley— Chapter 5, Censorship in Classical Antiquity, p. 150
