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Judge tosses $6-million lawsuit against Guelph couple over social media comments

https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-ne...mments-5113851

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The $6-million lawsuit against a Guelph couple that stemmed from a series of tweets was tossed out by the judge on Tuesday.

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“In the context of Twitter, there is every reason to believe that what Ms. Evans-Bitten, Mr. Kirkconnell and Ms. Smith doled back to him was fair comment,” said Morgan adding that Twitter is a “rhetorically harsh speech environment whose very pervasive harshness reduces the seriousness with which it is taken.” “There is nothing indefensible in the defendants’ communications about Mr. Mondal’s tweets; and there is nothing said by the defendants that, in context, is harsher than, or is an overreaction to, the language of Mr. Mondal’s tweets themselves,” said Morgan. “What the communications in issue amount to is a set of polar opposite views on cultural politics, gender politics, and Politics with a capital ‘P.’”

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