Social media comments are an online free-for-all. After the Dylan Voller case, media organisations have the impossible task of stemming the tide
The ramifications of Justice Stephen Rothman’s decision in the Dylan Voller case haven’t filtered downstream. Media organisations now are on notice as to their hip-pocket liability for the mean, ignorant, beastly, defamatory muck that is frequently peddled by readers in response to story items posted on their associated Facebook pages. Yet the rest of the world hasn’t given a toss.
The quality and quantity of the comments continues apace. Only last Thursday when Mike Baird ruled himself out of contention for the top job at the National Australia Bank, the comments about the former NSW premier on the Sydney Morning Herald Facebook feed would be manna from heaven for a half-competent lawyer in the defamation business.
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