The Libel Reform Campaign has proposed a public interest defence that, as Phillipson pointed out, would give claimants the right for allegations to be "promptly clarified or corrected with adequate prominence".
This new defence would allow for complete immunity from liability in defamation provided three conditions are met: the allegations concern a matter of public interest; they are honestly believed to be true; they are "promptly clarified or corrected with adequate prominence".
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone promptly clarified the situation in a blog post, stating that it has "no intention of 'going after' the wonderful applications and services that use the word in their name when associated with Twitter".
The CEO promptly issued apologetic statements in an attempt to clarify his opinion, but didn't specifically address how his platform would actually handle Holocaust denialism.
Orosa, the Miami police chief, issued a statement saying the MPD "looks forward to the opportunity to clarify several components of the letter, as well as to labor intensely to negotiate an agreement with the Department of Justice, as promptly as possible".
An ethics consult, properly and promptly performed, would have unequivocally clarified that a health care proxy can disconnect a pacemaker much as one can remove a ventilator.
What's more, clarifying a desire to have your baby picked up promptly need not -- and should not -- be reason enough to dismiss an otherwise qualified nanny.
