When I posted my TRUE experiences at Westgate Resorts in Orlando Florida of April 3, 1998, I got hundreds of email messages from readers all over the world that had similar stories.
Note that I am not making any statements about Westgate Resorts beyond my own experiences. I am documenting clearly and deliberately exactly what happened to me, as I wrote down immediately after leaving their building. Since carrying a tape recorder in with me and taping them was both not thought of and probably illegal, that was the best I could possibly do in recording the events.
I have also posted the actual words of several other people who wrote in to me, to demonstrate that this is not a single event. Those other writers have written of their own experiences in their own words.
As everything on this site is completely *True* - based on our own personal experiences, and in each case written FIRST PERSON by the person who experienced the situation, this is NOT LIBEL. This is a record of our experiences.
From the CyberLibel site:
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Defences
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Truth/justification. The defendant will succeed if they can substantially justify or prove the truth of the "sting" of the offending statements. Close analysis of the defamatory statement will avoid launching an ill-considered lawsuit.
Fair Comment. This defence will succeed if it can be shown that the statement is comment on facts truly stated. It can be defeated by evidence of malice.
Qualified privilege. This is a complicated legal defence and its application varies with the circumstances.
My TRUE experiences at Westgate Resorts