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Originally Posted by whitearrow
Wow, talk about your uphill battles. Whether something is pornography or not is the classic example of an opinion.
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But whether a word was used as an insult, with the result of damaging a person's reputation and income, is a lot easier to prove. And while the reporter may believe the term "pornography" means "sexually explicit in any way," knowing that people would understand it to mean "entirely comprised of sex with no literary merits aside from that" makes it a deliberate attempt to mislead people.
I think there's grounds for a case, but proving deception, rather than just negative opinion, will be difficult.
Saying "this book is utter tripe and not worth reading" isn't libel; convincing Amazon it should be pulled for violating content guidelines that it doesn't (at least, by comparison with several thousand other books), is libel. But it does look like a hard thing to prove.