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JBG's avatar

Thank you for writing this.

If you still have legal concerns, please allow me to point out that an opinion based on disclosed facts (which is basically what your post was) is not defamatory. If you make your factual basis evident, and then make some inferences from it, you're in the clear.

If someone actually did come after you for this, there are a lot of freedom of press type organizations that would presumably be interested in representing you, and California has a strong anti-SLAPP statute that means that frivolous defamation lawsuits get stopped quickly in courts. If it got that far, having an email from the other side acknowledging that you are acting in good faith is also pretty much golden.

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Tyler's avatar

Thanks for writing this. It was enough to make me cancel my pre-order. I still feel like the product was within my risk/benefit allowance, but I don't want to support a company that is acting this way. If they're going to be selling a quasi-legal "probiotic," and want people to trust them, this is such a bad look. Trevor's post seemed totally fine and good-faith (except for how it talked about Aella as a "pornstar" which did seem misleading and weirdly intended to shame/discredit her). I hope Lumina rethinks this.

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