He says criminalizing libel is pointless when there are functioning civil mechanisms to judge defamation and slander allegations.

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Right now I want to go out with Peggy Sue, but if I knew these true--It's not that you think, oh your roommate has made it up, that these are lies; these are slander.

现在我想和Peggy，Sue约会，但如果我知道这些事实，不是你所想的那样，你室友瞎编的，都是些谎话;,它们是诽谤。

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