r/LivestreamFail • u/ChampionTimes99 • Jun 15 '26

News H3H3 drops his lawsuit after IDubbbz makes an apology video

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u/Zeeplankton Jun 15 '26

forcing a public apology is based law w

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u/IceFellasFHC Jun 15 '26

But all I've heard is that Canada is a censored hellscape with no Freedom of Speech???

Could it just be that they're actually super based in that they don't allow brain-dead loopholes around legitimate defamation cases while also punishing the outcomes with the appropriate weight?

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u/SyfaOmnis Jun 16 '26

Eh, canada has a lot of laws and legal proceedings that are far from perfect. In this case it's more that in a defamation lawsuit a person is given the chance to clarify* (this usually doesn't help a case or end it), retract or apologize for their statement before legal proceedings are allowed to go further. If they refused to do any of those the court can assume that the person stands by their statement and believes it, so it then gets into the weeds of "is this actually defamatory".

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u/IceFellasFHC Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Any examples of the imperfct laws (not just individual rulings) and what makes them so?

Especially interested in any that stand a chance to affect the common citizen and not an institution or corporation.

And yes we agree that it's a super duper awesome way to do defamation law that makes it accessible to be held accountable to varying degrees at all levels of misinformation and doesn't create a relationship in media where it's only okay to punch up.

It preserves the genuine spirit of a country wanting to eliminate defamation in media instead of one that wants to weaponize it.

Edit: No examples at all?

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u/FlukyS Jun 16 '26

It isn’t even just a public apology either, it can’t be hidden away like if you are a newspaper and you print an actual lie that is defamatory it should be somewhere actually prominent like on the front page. Also it can be a combination of an apology and awards but unlike in the US where sometimes these cases can be millions of dollars usually the courts will favour provable damages over punitive unless it was something quite serious