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fasterik • today at 9:59 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Why is it libel? "Outage leads to poisoning" is a factual description of what happened, not an assignment of blame.


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aeonik • today at 10:19 PM

Because the outage didn't lead to the poisoning. Operator negligience and poor design did.

If I built a chlorine tank out of toothpicks and duct tape, and it leaks everywhere and kills people, you don't publish a headline that says DuctTape and Global Toothpicks Inc are responsible for chlorine deaths.

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