Boards.ie Sued

Wetwipe65

Has boards ever been sued for content posted by its members? I see from time to time that a thread may be locked or whatever because boards could be liable.

How is this possible when its the poster that posts something, not the company.

How come Facebook or Twitter are not sued for similar content?

suicide_circus

Cover yer arse

gifted

Cos the owners of boards are powerful people...beware....

Two Tone

Why do you think Facebook and Twitter are not sued? I'd say the legal notices are like a sea into their postbox every morning!

The publisher/broadcaster gets sued rather than the person saying the thing. It's why radio stations have a delay of a few seconds.

Wetwipe65

suicide_circus wrote:

Cover yer arse

But why do other Social media sites have this issue?

Anita Blow

No never been sued at all, ever. Everything is fine.

Hail MCD

EGriff

Don't mention Denis O'Bri**

suicide_circus

Anita Blow wrote: »

No never been sued at all, ever. Everything is fine.

Hail MCD

Oh yeah! What happened there?

Lovely Bloke

EGriff wrote: »

Don't mention Denis O'Bri**

***is O'Brien?

Lovely Bloke

suicide_circus wrote: »

Oh yeah! What happened there?

people burned down tents, other people posted about it on Boards, MCD didn't like the bad news story and took Boards to court to remove the content.

Grayson

suicide_circus wrote: »

Oh yeah! What happened there?

Google Streisand effect

johnnyskeleton

suicide_circus wrote: »

Oh yeah! What happened there?

It was no picnic anyway.

EGriff

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

***is O'Brien?

Penis O'Brien, notorious litigator.

Pro Hoc Vice

Wetwipe65 wrote: »

But why do other Social media sites have this issue?

Just checked High Court site a number of cases listed against both Facebook and Twitter.

Anesthetize

suicide_circus wrote: »

Oh yeah! What happened there?

1st RULE: You do not talk about MCD events
2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about MCD EVENTS

jimmynokia

The only thing as mentioned above is the words Denis Maltese O Brien. He owns everything at a selective level when it comes to social media and so on.

Mint Aero

Denis O'Brien

Samaris

Also, the legal system(s) of the world are still trying to get their heads around the internet as a legal entity. At the moment as far as I am aware, a website can be sued for its content in the country it is hosted in. Boards.ie is an Irish site and so falls under the defamation and other relevant -Irish- laws. I..uh..actually don't know where Facebook and Twitter originated, but I am going to assume the US, so they would be subject (insofar as anyone manages to police anything impartially on the internet) to American law, not Irish law. American law isn't as stringent on the hosts of defamatory comment as Irish law is.

Sugar Free

I remember during the height of the MCD issues you couldn't even mention any of their events/venue without it being automatically starred or removed.

Wetwipe65

Samaris wrote:

Also, the legal system(s) of the world are still trying to get their heads around the internet as a legal entity. At the moment as far as I am aware, a website can be sued for its content in the country it is hosted in. Boards.ie is an Irish site and so falls under the defamation and other relevant -Irish- laws. I..uh..actually don't know where Facebook and Twitter originated, but I am going to assume the US, so they would be subject (insofar as anyone manages to police anything impartially on the internet) to American law, not Irish law. American law isn't as stringent on the hosts of defamatory comment as Irish law is.

With Facebook HQ in Ireland, wouldn't they be operating under Irish law

LDN_Irish

My daddy is the toppest of top boys in KPMG and he'd kick the **** out of all your dads.

gordongekko

Sugar Free wrote: »

I remember during the height of the MCD issues you couldn't even mention any of their events/venue without it being automatically starred or removed.

Boards must be due to start a talk to MCD section any day now so

Ruu

I sued when my mod stock in the company plummeted taking massive losses.

SEPT 23 1989

Ruu wrote: »

I sued when my mod stock in the company plummeted taking massive losses.

Yeah but you walked away with a big pension and the call girl company credit card unpleasantness was brushed under the carpet

Lia_lia

Sugar Free wrote: »

I remember during the height of the MCD issues you couldn't even mention any of their events/venue without it being automatically starred or removed.

I thought you still couldn't mention MCD! Ohh I feel so bold now.

SEPT 23 1989

Lia_lia wrote: »

I thought you still couldn't mention MCD! Ohh I feel so bold now.

Expect a knock on the door shortly

MOH

Lia_lia wrote: »

I thought you still couldn't mention MCD! Ohh I feel so bold now.

That'd make things difficult: I ate a burger in onald's

The_Valeyard

What was the outcome from that whole fallout anyhow?

doolox

I do not go to any concerts or events that might be even remotely linked with the 13th, the 3rd or the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet in that order.

I do not support or buy any product connected with a character from Wanderly Wagon who is male and large and was played by Eugene Lambert and whose first name was the patron saint of France.

josip

MCD and Denis O'Brien.
There I've said it.
Both of them in the same post.
Cojones.

jd

josip wrote:

MCD and Denis O'Brien. There I've said it. Both of them in the same post. Cojones.

What about the hookers and coke ( for the mods)

1hnr79jr65

gordongekko wrote: »

Boards must be due to start a talk to MCD section any day now so

McDonalds offered dodgy tents that burned in happy meals ?

Samaris

Wetwipe65 wrote: »

With Facebook HQ in Ireland, wouldn't they be operating under Irish law

Depends where the actual servers are.

Wibbs

To be fair, the way Irish law is worked, I'm more than a little bit surprised that Boards is still here TBH. The "we think we're Yanks, Free Speech!!!" crowd don't seem to realise how easily free speech can be litigated into silence so easily in this country. Even the threat of litigation, even when there is zero case to answer, needs bloody deep pockets to pay off the legal fees defending the obvious.

jamesbere

I'll sue Denis o brien for the craic. Nothing else to be doing

Wibbs

Samaris wrote: »

Depends where the actual servers are.

And how soft or hard a legal target you are to the ambulance chasers. To some gimp with a rented office in Nowheresville, Facebook is a Goliath and they are no David and they know it. Any nuisance suit is going to be hammered to fcuk by Facebook's huge legal team and endless resources. Boards? They look way softer a target.

josip

jamesbere wrote: »

I'll sue Denis o brien for the craic. Nothing else to be doing

He would counter sue you for defaming his good name by your act of suing him.
No craic to be had there.
Unless your name is Michael Lowry and are in receipt of payments of hundreds of thousands of pounds Sterling from Denis at the time of awarding the 2nd mobile license (source Moriarty Tribunal).

FluffyAngel

I actually thought Mcd obrien was a rapper













































No i didn't

Badly Drunk Boy

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

It was no picnic anyway.

To burn a tent, you need oxygen.

the groutch

gordongekko wrote: »

Boards must be due to start a MCD section any day now so

they can put it in BA alongside the Gearbest one

jimgoose

These days my lawyer just wraps the Interlocutory Heredictament around a brick and slings it through the lobby window at Boards Towers after falling out of Doheny & Nesbitts out of his skull on Courvoisier. That usually only happens when someone mentions that time I (allegedly) started a fight outside the chipper. In the Burj Al Arab. Oops...

Capt'n Midnight

Wibbs wrote: »

To be fair, the way Irish law is worked, I'm more than a little bit surprised that Boards is still here TBH. The "we think we're Yanks, Free Speech!!!" crowd don't seem to realise how easily free speech can be litigated into silence so easily in this country. Even the threat of litigation, even when there is zero case to answer, needs bloody deep pockets to pay off the legal fees defending the obvious.

A trip to the High Court can cost a couple of hundred grand, as in loosing your house if anything goes wrong.


Case in point.

This one was dropped because the plaintiff didn't have deep enough pockets to be able to cough up €10 million to pay for both sides legal costs if the case was lost.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/judge-says-english-firm-cannot-fund-denis-o-brien-case-1.2617753

Chijj

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Case in point.

This one was dropped because the plaintiff didn't have deep enough pockets to be able to cough up €10 million to pay for both sides legal costs if the case was lost.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/judge-says-english-firm-cannot-fund-denis-o-brien-case-1.2617753

That article is a prime example of what is wrong with this country. The case may well have turned out to be frivolous but it should have been allowed proceed.


Who promotes judges? Oh wait. Never mind.

_Tombstone_

What you say on boards?

Following on from a Feedback thread...

Dav wrote: »

Hello all,

As some of you have seen elsewhere, US Oil & Gas is pursuing several people for comments made on websites including Boards.ie.

I can confirm that a Section 8 request has come in last night signed off by Justice Murphy and that we will of course be complying with it.

We were notified of the potentially defamatory content on Friday (23rd) and took the post down from the site as per our standard procedures whilst we investigated it. We found some of the content to be outside of our terms and conditions and the thread will remain deleted.

US Oil & Gas have made it clear to us that they are intent on pursuing the individuals who made the comments and not Boards.ie Ltd.

I would ask that whilst this case is being heard that you not mention it until there's been a result as doing so may prejudice proceedings.

Thank you all very much for your time.

Official Statement re: US Oil & Gas (USOP)