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> This ban also ruined other games for me. If I ever did well in a game, someone would look at my profile to see how many hours I have and instantly see the red marker that shows “I am a cheater”.

I wonder if that label can be considered to be libel. Probably harder in the US, but from what I understand in UK (or just England?) the defendant must prove that it's true.




On the UK though, computer data is proof. If the computer says you cheated, it’s proven.

This is about to change though, since the national postal services got a whole bunch of people convicted of fraud based on a system they knew buggy.


For context, (I assume) this is referencing the Horizon IT Scandal in which faulty accounting software used by post offices in the UK indicated there were financial discrepencies suggesting embezzlement, and over 900 innocent people were convicted of crimes that never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal




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