The progressive spread of the Internet, dei social network, of sharing platforms and messaging services has profoundly changed the ways in which people communicate and spread information, determining significant consequences also on a legal level and imposing a continuous evolution of the tools..

The defamation crime finds its foundation in the need to guarantee the reputation of the individual, or the honor understood in a subjective sense, what consideration that the external world has of the subject himself. The legal good subject to protection is the reputation of the offended person. The conditions of the crime are as follows: ...

On the subject of defamation, the exemption of the right to criticize postulates a correct expository form, strictly functional to the purpose of disapproval and which does not lead to the gratuitous and unjustified aggression of others' reputation, but it does not prohibit the use of terms that, although objectively offensive, they also have the meaning ...