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Uk online newspaper and readers comments

  • 20-10-2011 4:03pm
    #1
    chasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,
    Not sure if anyone can help on this but i'll ask anyway.

    I regularly read UK newspapers online, and sometimes read the readers comments section underneath certain stories. I know here on boards there is a charter and rules regarding what you can write on here etc so as not to leave the site/poster open to legal action and this is well moderated, but would this apply to newspaper website comments section or would the fact that they state above it that comments are not moderated cover them.(that said i have noticed people complaining their comments are not being posted).

    As a quick background, i have been following the dale farm eviction story in this certain paper, and whereas i agree with the eviction, i find that some of the comments on the story have been absolutely disgraceful, not only the comments regarding what they should do to the travellers- which i will not repeat here, but at the Irish in general. So i suppose in short what i want to know is, are UK newspaper websites liable for ALL the content on their site, even if it isn't supposedly moderated?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    I think I can imagine the type of comments that you're talking about but it's interesting that they are not moderated because technically the operator of the website would be responsible for the posted comments if found to be defamatory to an individual or group.

    However nobody takes Facebook or Twitter to court when someone posts offensive remarks, a Rangers fan in Scotland got jail recently for posting an offensive remark about Celtic supporters - I think he called them something relatively harmless like 'effin Fenian tattie pickers' and he got jail.


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