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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

submitted 11 months ago by skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 11 months ago

IANAL, however here you have such a thing: Defamation doesn't have to be considered a crime if it's a public statement of a fact that either concerns public official or is expressed in defense of a legitimate interest (this one here would be right to repair, right to fair competition, strategic interests of the state and some others)

this is basically translation of a snippet from some lawyer's blog, and i'm not fluent in legalese