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0 pointslogfromblammo10y ago0 comments

Does Finland not have protections against defamation? If someone that wasn't an American FBI employee falsely accused you of a crime, would you have a legal remedy?

Article 24, paragraphs 8-10?

It looks like you would have to file a criminal complaint in order to proceed with a civil claim, and the state cannot act on criminal charges until you actually make the complaint, unless the defamation appeared in the mass media. If the Finnish prosecutor declines to act against the FBI, your only remaining remedy is to file a claim in the court of public opinion by getting a local journalist to tell your story on a slow news day.

You owe it to yourself and all noncriminal Finnish hackers to at least make a defamation complaint to Finnish police against the FBI. Your statute of limitations is 5 years.

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ryanlol10y ago

I've actually been thinking of filing several of such complaints for a while, but it's sort of been on the backburner. However on monday I'll see if I can get copies of the original communications and get the complaints filed.

Rather unlikely that any prosecutor would pick them up, but who knows?

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ryanlol10y ago

Rather unlikely that any prosecutor would pick them up, but who knows?

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