This sad idiot better hope to god that's not true. I suggest he start
here. Particularly the part about actual malice.
His understanding of the legal status of bloggers qua journalists is about what you'd expect from someone who got schooled on the Stolen Valor Act (and the basic constitutional issues surrounding it) by Jace.
Status as a "journalist" might be relevant if you were trying to, for instance, protect a source's confidentiality if you got subpoenaed, and there was a relevant "shield law."
It is no license to libel people, though. Even someone like Eli isn't libel proof as a general matter and calling someone a drug dealer is libel per se.
Hint, Reuben, you dumb sack of shit: the alleged drug dealer is someone else who is not Eli.
Second hint: the actual malice standard, if it's applicable here, does not require you actually know what you're saying is false (although you do know now if you do even minimal further research). It requires knowledge of falsity
OR reckless disregard as to truth or falsity.
Not that anyone gives a shit enough to sue a moron like you or Eli would even know how to go about it, but it just shows your general shitty lack of ethics.
What's amazing is you put this on the front page of your website. Most people who had just humiliated themselves
this fucking badly would be crying under their bed and desperately figuring out how to get this shit off the net.
