My point exactly regarding this legal threat. I’m fully in agreement with the notion that the plaintiff would have prevailed on Cory’s omission of the critical word “alleged”, but independent of that the guillotine imagery alone wouldn’t be the basis for a winning action and isn’t something I’d wring my hands over in any way.
In other words, if Cory had called them “alleged criminals” (or just referred to Purdue Pharma as “criminal”) a letter sent just about the guillotine stuff would have been met with another artisianal “f*ck you” letter from what I agree are BoingBoing’s highly competent legal counsel.
