casimir81
“And if he lost his job over this, then that’s good and its a “teachable moment” for him and nobody can sue anyone over it. That is the consequences of his actions. His employer does not need to employ anyone who is getting bad press all over the news. The fact that its a free country applies to Bob and me, and the dive shops and the news media and his former employers.”
You do have the freedom to speak what you like. But when lies are told (saying it was a female octopus which seems to have really made it look a lot worse) without credible research and with the intent to harm a person’s reputation it is called libel and that is against the law and has been since before the American Revolution.
It does not matter what you, or I, or Bob Bailey, or even the whole dive community think of him. It is against the law to spread lies that inflict harm.