biko wrote: » http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055991795Any abuse of the person = consequences will never be the same.
skelliser wrote: » This person has put herself into the public domain. She has chosen to make a living out of it. Imo that makes her fair game.
Miss Fluff wrote: » http://www.showbiz.ie/news/august10/06-lovely-girls-day-at-the-horse-show.shtml
Wibbs wrote: » Do I watch xpose? Nope. Do I think it high brow entertainment? I do not. Do I think yer wan or any of the others are ? Not particularly. I have much more issue with the corruption of certain individuals that are charged with governing us than any lassie who talks about frocks and "celebs" for a living. Good luck to her if she can earn a crust from it TBH. Just cos some muppet gets a bee in her/his bonnet over feck all doesnt mean squat to me. Better serve them to start a facebook page about problems in the health service or the banking crisis.
skelliser wrote: » Do you not think its pretty hypocritical that a person who presents a show in which the private life's of public figures is treated as public property but gets in a strop when the tables are turned! And what of censorship, are people not entitled to air their opinions?
Wolflikeme wrote: » I think a public hate campaign is a bit more than just airing opinions though...
skelliser wrote: » Do you not think its pretty hypocritical that a person who presents a show in which the private life's of public figures is treated as public property but gets in a strop when the tables are turned!
And what of censorship, are people not entitled to air their opinions?
Wolflikeme wrote: » WTF!!?!! Are they supposed to be 'somebodies'? I recognise Ann Doyle! That's it!
skelliser wrote: » "Hate campaign" thats a bit extreme! The only negative comment i can see is that "she is the most annoying women on tv"
Aisling O'Loughlin wrote: Thank God we live in a democracy where we can wear what we want instead of being hidden under a burka. And thank God for freedom of speech but it's sad to see that privilege being abused by misguided people. Aren't these kind of campaigns better suited to fighting for real injustices, say like internet bullying?
My name is URL wrote: » I think that calling it a public hate campaign is a bit of a stretch in this case.
Wolflikeme wrote: » Going to the trouble of setting up a public forum whereby people can express they're hatred or dislike for someone in the public eye, is a hate campaign. If we're talking about a TV show and somebody say in passing how much they dislike her, that's what you're describing...I think.
tinkerbell wrote: » Aisling - change the hairstyle and go hire a stylist.
Aisling O'Loughlin, 31, a presenter on popular TV3 show Xposé, said that she has already sought legal advice from lawyer Gerald Kean and from David McMunn, director of legal affairs at TV3, in relation to the offensive webpage on Facebook where people can join the "Get Rid of Aisling O'Loughlin from Xposé" campaign. Ms O'Loughlin said her decision to pursue the matter was not motivated by her own victimisation but by the "lack of policing of cyberspace". "I know there are those who would say I am asking for trouble by responding to people who engage in this kind of thing, but my motivation is the lack of regulation in cyberspace, the fact that it is so hard to defend your good name and the fact that there is no recourse to protect yourself," Ms O'Loughlin said. The TV presenter said she had been unable to make contact with Facebook by phone to make a formal complaint and that the only response she got to an online complaint was a pop-up menu advising her not to expect feedback. As a result, she decided to take action herself and posted her own comments on the offensive webpage advising those who had labelled her as "the most annoying woman on TV" to: "Please think twice the next time you plan on writing something horrible on the internet about anybody, because the words don't just disappear into the ether, they are ultimately published and can have very serious repercussions." Ms O'Loughlin said she believed the page may have been started in Cork. An expert in bullying at the anti-bullying centre in Trinity College Dublin, said they would usually advise a person who was the target of a bullying campaign to make an official complaint to the gardaí. "A lot of these social networking sites won't take down offensive material unless gardaí approach them," said Murray Smith, a research assistant at the centre. "There is a difference between a teen and a high-profile TV presenter and defamation probably would not work for the former," Mr Smith said. A statement from Facebook said that their social networking site helped people "connect and share with each other" and talk about topics they had an opinion on – including public figures – and that "just like the conversations people have offline", sometimes online discussions covered controversial topics. The statement said Facebook discussions could "actually promote a healthy and balanced debate" but that if they were alerted to bullying or hateful content in relation to a private individual on Facebook, "then this would violate our terms and would be removed". The Facebook page was taken down yesterday.
