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Who is liable, the poster or the forum owner?

  • 15-04-2012 9:10pm
    #1
    jobucks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 801 ✭✭✭


    I hope this is the right place to post this, and thanks in advance for any help you can give.

    A certain forum I look at and participate on Facebook quite a bit is having trouble with some regular posters. The forum is not being moderated properly and people are flinging insults at each other left right and centre aswell as trolling like you have never seen before.

    I have mentioned to the owner of the page that one of these days someone is going to go to far. What I want to know is, if someone says something on his page/forum and slanders someone or is abusive, will he be liable for these comments or will the poster be?

    Thanks guys


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,240 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Both could be responsible, but the site could minimise the risk by acting promptly.


  • #3
    28064212
    Registered Users Posts: 10,455 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    Victor wrote: »
    Both could be responsible, but the site could minimise the risk by acting promptly.
    Further complicated by the fact that the site is hosted by Facebook, not the page owner. In fact, I doubt the owner of the page has any responsibility in this matter whatsoever. The worst thing they might be doing is breaking the Facebook terms and conditions.

    OP, report the stuff to Facebook, they're much more likely to act

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  • #4
    Priori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭Priori


    Yep, I'd imagine the only thing facebook are likely to care about are the posters in question. If they're posting spam/insults on that page, they're likely to do it elsewhere too.

    The page owner has the option to 'report as abuse' any posts he/she feels fall into that category. Best the reports come from the page owner rather than random browsers IMO.


  • #5
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    OP are you talking about an actual forum or a Facebook group?


  • #6
    jobucks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 801 ✭✭✭jobucks


    Aidan, I suppose it's a Facebook group but the name of the group is the xx forum, so its being run as a forum.


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