alt Hacker News> It is perfectly legal to say, for example, "Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer" despite him being acquitted.
That's ... not quite true. I wouldn't go that far.
> It is perfectly legal to say, for example, "Kyle Rittenhouse is a murderer" despite him being acquitted.
That's ... not quite true. I wouldn't go that far.
Sure it is, that's how the 1A works. Saying he was convicted of murder is not true, but calling him a murderer is an opinion. Your opinion doesn't even have to be reasonable. It just has to be based on facts that both you and I have.
1A rights are construed really broadly. The courts don't do the 'he wasn't legally convicted therefore it's illegal to call him one' thing.