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Boards.ie Sued

  • 09-06-2016 09:12PM
    #1
    Wetwipe65
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 62 ✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Cover yer arse


  • #3
    gifted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,227 ✭✭✭gifted


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


  • #4
    Two Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 513 ✭✭✭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.


  • #5
    Wetwipe65
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 62 ✭✭Wetwipe65


    suicide_circus wrote:
    Cover yer arse


    But why do other Social media sites have this issue?


  • #6
    Anita Blow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭Anita Blow


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

    Hail MCD


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  • #7
    EGriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭EGriff


    Don't mention Denis O'Bri**


  • #8
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Anita Blow wrote: »
    No never been sued at all, ever. Everything is fine.

    Hail MCD
    Oh yeah! What happened there?


  • #9
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    EGriff wrote: »
    Don't mention Denis O'Bri**

    ***is O'Brien?


  • #10
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,448 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Oh yeah! What happened there?

    Google Streisand effect :)


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  • #12
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,566 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Oh yeah! What happened there?

    It was no picnic anyway.


  • #13
    EGriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭EGriff


    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    ***is O'Brien?

    Penis O'Brien, notorious litigator.


  • #14
    Pro Hoc Vice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭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


  • #16
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Denis O'Brien


  • #18
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    Sugar Free
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    Wetwipe65
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 62 ✭✭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


  • #21
    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


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


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  • #22
    gordongekko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,299 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • #23
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


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


  • #24
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #26
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #27
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭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


  • #28
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    What was the outcome from that whole fallout anyhow?


  • #29
    doolox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,109 ✭✭✭✭josip


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


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  • #31
    jd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,868 ✭✭✭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)


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