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  • Generally, a "SLAPP" is a (1) civil complaint or counterclaim; (2) filed against individuals or organizations; (3) arising from their communications to government or speech on an issue of public interest or concern. SLAPPs are often brought by corporations, real estate developers, government officials and others against individuals and community groups who oppose them on issues of public concern. SLAPP filers frequently use lawsuits based on ordinary civil claims such as defamation, conspiracy, malicious prosecution, nuisance, interference with contract and/or economic advantage, as a means of transforming public debate into lawsuits. Most SLAPPs are ultimately legally unsuccessful. While most SLAPPs lose in court, they "succeed" in the public arena. This is because defending a SLAPP, even when the legal defense is strong, requires a substantial investment of money, time, and resources. The resulting effect is a "chill" on public participation in, and open debate on, important public issues. This "chilling" effect is not limited to the SLAPP target(s): fearful of being the target of future litigation, others refrain from speaking on, or participating in, issues of public concern.
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11/05/2005

John Steinmetz's False Accusation of "Defamation"

The first letter I received from NationMaster in this latest round of abuse. It is timestamped Nov 4, 2005 7:01 AM.

Greetings,

My name is John Steinmetz, Content Manager for . I am writing to you regarding your dissatisfaction with us and your defamatory [sic] posting at: http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/04/01/nation_mas...

Since we have discontinued the supporters area and made our site entirely free to all users, we would appreciate you pulling down this post. NationMaster has always attempted to be a resource for everyone on the net, and in an effort to fulfill that mission, we no longer charge our viewers to access the correlations, scatterplots and additional graphing tools.

In addition, we would like to extend the olive branch to you, by offering a full refund of your supporter payments if you take down the above blog topic. It is harmful to our business, and I assure you, we are not a scam site [sic]. I personally work at getting content online that will be free for everyone, and that is a tremendous service and analogous to the ideals of the information revolution. We originally charged for a few graphing tools in order to support our operations here, and any problems we have had with the supporters area have been nullified by making the site free.

Once the url above is down, Luke will re-pay you in full. If you choose to leave this url up, we will consider legal action.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to call on me [no number was provided].

Best Regards,

John Steinmetz

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