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Are there any legal requirements on creating a novelty/slanderous website?

PaurGasm · 2013-05-31 18:53:15

Hi, I am currently creating a simple novelty website which may be seen as slanderous to religion but it is obviously not meant to come across like that. Are there any restrictions on creating such a website?or any legal requirements in general?

31-05-2013 6:53pm

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PaurGasm

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Hi,

I am currently creating a simple novelty website which may be seen as slanderous to religion but it is obviously not meant to come across like that.

Are there any restrictions on creating such a website?or any legal requirements in general?

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#2 31-05-2013 7:43pm

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PaurGasm wrote: »

Hi,

I am currently creating a simple novelty website which may be seen as slanderous to religion but it is obviously not meant to come across like that.

Are there any restrictions on creating such a website?or any legal requirements in general?

should really ask in the legal discussion forum
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=633

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#3 31-05-2013 7:47pm

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The Atheism and Agnosticism forum should do the job for you, no?

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#4 31-05-2013 8:05pm

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Moved to legal discussion.

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#5 31-05-2013 8:07pm

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Not sure about the exact legal requirements but if you're hosting it in Ireland (or most places in europe) then you'll be in a bag of trouble with data commissioners etc.

If I were you I'd start by reading up on how other mainstream controversial sites handle it - e.g. sickipedia.org

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#6 31-05-2013 8:39pm

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Beware:
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2009/en/act/pub/0031/sec0036.html#sec36

No prosecutions have been brought under this provision yet though.

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#7 01-06-2013 10:04am

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Thanks

What if I didn't use the word God in any part of the website but the pictures I have sketched for the website depict what some would see as a stereotypical God?

I also plan on writing some sort of disclaimer so nobody gets too offended.

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#8 01-06-2013 10:06am

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Why are you pursuing something so pointless?

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#9 01-06-2013 10:10am

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There is no requirement to use the word God to get in trouble.

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#10 01-06-2013 10:13am

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Prodigious wrote: »

Why are you pursuing something so pointless?

Its just a project I want to take on to test a few skills I picked up on my college course. Nothing serious

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