Talk:Denyse O'Leary
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"dissent of dissent" - what, exactly, did you mean by that? 
Genghismarauding 18:25, 13 August 2008 (EDT)
- O'Leary shut off blog comments because she didn't want visitors to her site to see people disagreeing with her. Hence dissent of O'learys purported dissent from darwinism. 24.36.227.74 18:29, 13 August 2008 (EDT)
- The phrase is a bit clumsy, Tm. Jellyfish!Holy Roman empire 18:30, 13 August 2008 (EDT)
- "a friend is pestering me to sue for defamation." Sorry? wTF is defamatory about this? It's rather kind, in a "don't mock the mentally retarded" sort of way. This message brought to you by:
respondand honey 06:47, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Meh, Canada's laws on defamation are pretty "plaintif" friendly. tmtoulouse 07:00, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- This is pretty much on the level of all Andy's law suits against us. They use the word sue in the hope of getting us to remove it, but they don't follow through with even an official request to remove the material because they would just get laughed at by us, never mind a court. - User =
07:06, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- The issue is that the standard in Canada is that material "lowers the reputation of an individual in the eyes of the public." There is case law that even discounts a "justification" or "truth" defense. Though, my understanding is Ontario as a province a truth defense would still hold. But "common law" systems often of very free speech unfriendly defamation laws. This is more an intellectual exercise in why someone might think they could get away with it. I am not particularly worried about a lawsuit. tmtoulouse 07:09, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Well she can't sue us then, this article probably raises her ever so slightly in the eyes of the public given where she is now. - User =
07:14, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Nice one, 22/7 give or take a few thousandths. Nice one. ħuman
08:22, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- They've got no reason to sue us. Let's face it, if someone wants to genuinely find out about Denyse O'Leary they're gonna go to Wikipedia, and apart from that, people rip the shit out of everyone else all the time, so if she thinks this is offensive she should watch Frankie Boyle Live. (Or just have a conversation with Ace). SuperJosh likes food 15:52, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- Nice one, 22/7 give or take a few thousandths. Nice one. ħuman
- Well she can't sue us then, this article probably raises her ever so slightly in the eyes of the public given where she is now. - User =
- The issue is that the standard in Canada is that material "lowers the reputation of an individual in the eyes of the public." There is case law that even discounts a "justification" or "truth" defense. Though, my understanding is Ontario as a province a truth defense would still hold. But "common law" systems often of very free speech unfriendly defamation laws. This is more an intellectual exercise in why someone might think they could get away with it. I am not particularly worried about a lawsuit. tmtoulouse 07:09, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- This is pretty much on the level of all Andy's law suits against us. They use the word sue in the hope of getting us to remove it, but they don't follow through with even an official request to remove the material because they would just get laughed at by us, never mind a court. - User =
- Meh, Canada's laws on defamation are pretty "plaintif" friendly. tmtoulouse 07:00, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
- "a friend is pestering me to sue for defamation." Sorry? wTF is defamatory about this? It's rather kind, in a "don't mock the mentally retarded" sort of way. This message brought to you by:
[edit] Did O'Leary really teach a University course?
RationalWiki says that someone let O'Leary teach a course on the campus of Toronto University. Maybe so, but was it a University authorized course? Her blog (follow your footnote) states the course was taught at 100 St. Joseph's Street. A business named FLM Languages (www.flmlanguages.com) is at 100 St. Joseph's street, which appears to be on the campus. However, I wonder if O'Leary taught at a commercial or otherwise non-university affiliated place at the same address. It's possible somebody affiliated with the University has low enough standards to invite her give a course, but I kind of doubt it. — Unsigned, by: 144.92.16.248 / talk / contribs 11:16, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
