PE> Do we have any examples of successful suing
PE> against someone you don't even know?

FM> There was that uni bloke in WA who recently
FM> successfully sued someone who defamed him on the
FM> Internet. Don't know if he knew him though, probably did.

JG> I was reading about that case and found out that under the laws
JG> that applied to that case (WA I think), the truth was no defense.

Its more complicated than that. He actually admitted he had written it.
If he had not done that, it would have been impossible to prove he had.

JG> To not defame someone, it must be shown to be
JG> in the public interest. Truth is irrelevant!.

You've mangled that too. It was actually about child molesting, and
its hard to claim that comments about that aint in the public interest.

Truth is indeed very relevant in that particular case.
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