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Eircom must disclose blogger IDs to Ryanair over defamatory posts

Truman Burbank · 2013-02-13 10:07:06

Am in total agreement on this one. You can't go making (knowingly) false statements, as appears to be the case. I don't believe any High Court judge would make this ruling lightly. If there were safety issues perceived by the bloggers, which wasn't addressed by the company, an anonymous call to The Irish Aviation…

13-02-2013 10:07am

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Am in total agreement on this one. You can't go making (knowingly) false statements, as appears to be the case. I don't believe any High Court judge would make this ruling lightly. If there were safety issues perceived by the bloggers, which wasn't addressed by the company, an anonymous call to The Irish Aviation Authority, and in the absence of a union, they could have had any of the papers look into it etc. Ryanair is not the issue here, tarnishing a company's business falsely is.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/eircom-must-disclose-ids-of-bloggers-accused-of-making-highly-defamatory-posts-29066737.html

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#2 13-02-2013 10:11am

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By the looks of it we know nothing about the case or the accusations that have been made. They may be true they may not be!

Sounds to me more like the accusations have some truth and Ryanair are trying to make it look like they are rubbish. If they went after every accusation about them online they would be after half of their customer base.

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