Beware Trolls! New Libel Law in UK

the law definitely is filled with more holes than the movie theater bathroom stalls

 

What applies to facebook and twitter does not necessarily apply to hipforums since hipforums is an anonymous website. I think hipforums is exempt.

 

and nobody has does anything wrong on this site

according to any law

you're just scaremongering.

 

nobody has done anything illegal because all of the illegal posts (buying/ selling drugs) are promptly removed. without any moderation, the forum would have been shut down years ago.

 

who cares what people write

i just fucked a sheep.

no wait i didn't.

on second thought i'm welsh

ok i did.

 

Have you heard of 4chan? That place is pure chaos and it has never been shut down.

 

That's simple. You're not committing the act in the jurisdiction of Saudi Arabia so it would be hard to argue their law should apply. If you publish something on the internet it's published everywhere. That doesn't mean that a certain law should apply, but if it concerns a certain person then there's a strong argument their home law should apply.

 

Really? I see they have more rules than we do and they talk plenty about banning people who break their rules.

 

Yeah there are some rules but it depends on what board you go on.

Some boards don't even have mods, only thing they enforce is spamming and child p...

Everything else is good to go, i visit their politics board and see Racists, Republicans, Anarchists, and Libertarians. Everybody insults everyone though, nobody cares. It's an anonymous board so it represents what you should think about the internet

"Imaginary people attacking other imaginary people"

 

Talking smack and bantering is one thing, but the proposed law in the UK is about serious libel - when a person's real life identity is defamed - that's what is being spoken of in this thread.

 

Even to this day they post pictures of people and post contact info. Take for example Jessica Slaugher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejGGwq4qTmE"]Jessi slaughter You dun goofed REAL ORIGINAL - YouTube

It still hasn't been shutdown.......

Just the other day the politics board tried to get a woman fired for saying anti-white remarks on facebook and threatening to bomb a church. If people don't want to be attacked then they shouldn't be putting their info on the web.

 

What is that crap about in the video?

 

A community trolling a girl to the point where her life was ruined, police got involved, and she was put under surveillance for constant death threats... But lets stay on topic here.

 

There are no real life identities on this anonymous forum so the law doesn't apply to hipforums.

 

I'm pretty protective of my pseudonym 'Shale.' He's all over the Web, especially places I don't want Shale's naughty stuff to show up on a search of Rob Whatshisname.

In fact Shale Stone has been my alter-ego for so long, he is even registered as the copyright holder of some work he appeared in.

So, could Shale be considered a life identity? What if a hundred years ago someone maligned Mark Twain libelously in the press? Could they get away with it because they didn't call him Samuel Clemens?

 

Bottom line - Skip's rules do apply to Skip's site.

 

http://rt.com/usa/news/swat-internet-evansville-bolin-898/

This is a good example. If there was any evidence that the remarks were grounded in fact and that the poster constituted a real threat to anyone, the FBI would have been on it and conducted a much less flashy arrest.

 

My feeling will not be hurt if rumors go around: orison has a mouth full of nuts..

 

Well... I know what my next google search is gonna be on :sultan: