By my experience in Finland... the state/justice system doesn't care a much about defamation charges and even less about online defamination charges. That is unless you're: + influential enough politician + well-known enough celeb + or have enough money to waste into semi-hopeless quest. I know one woman (she's influential town council member) in there who sued man for defamation... well she actually won the case and got compensiation... lol the problem is that the man in question is jobless loser with no income other than social security. And if the defamer is from other country... it gets even more hopeless... most countries wouldn't care a shit about some foreign person suing their citizen for defamation... even less for online defamation... lol seriously if I could get even 500 euros as compensation for every serious online defamation I get I would had made 50 000 euros already in this year alone. But I bet the states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Turkey wouldn't really take my accusations serious.

Clever rebuttal. ^^ Well, defamation can be hard to pin down - online defamation even harder. To be specific, to seek any kind of compensation for being a victim of defamation you (generally, this depends on your specific nation, of course) suffer significant financial burden or severe social stress or anxiety as a direct result of the defamation. This would include things like: being fired from your job, being 'asked' to move from your community (apartment building, etc), and such. Hurting your feelings or upsetting you isn't liable. For the specifics of online defamation the stakes are raised. Quite often online defamation (True online defamation, between individuals whose relationship to one another is purely online) happens between people in two different juristictions, as in, different countries which makes it very very difficult to prosecute as it is already such a wishy-washy topic. In order to prosecute under online defamation you would likely have to suffer financial loss as a result to the defamation. For instance, an online business going under or suffering serious financial loss due to the defamation. Perhaps even an industrious person's online English tutoring classes suddenly emptying would be cause enough? Hard to say! However, in order for defamation to be an appropriate charge, the offending statement would have to be an untrue statement of fact - not opinion.