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Addressing Unacceptable Online Behaviour
Publication is no longer the preserve big, powerful, politically biased billionaires, as it historically was once the case.
Now, thanks to the digital revolution social media means just about anybody can be a publisher through blogs, tweets, You Tube, Facebook and various other digital platforms.
However, the traditional billionaire print publishers engage lawyers to protect them from the inherent risks of being a publisher. Some insurance obligations even demanded it. Print copy is legally cleared before publication and lawyers are drafted in yet again if complaints are made post publication.
Recurring issues include image rights attached to photographs, contempt of court breaches following comment on active criminal cases, breach of confidentiality, invasion of privacy and defamation of character.
Publication of blogs, tweets and other online-postings by laymen often demonstrate no regard for such legal considerations. A number of high profile defamation cases stemming from such legal ignorance has proven judicially costly for a number of reckless social media users.
Social media can be mis-used by digital deviants and keyboard cowards for very anti-social behaviour, making it more “anti-social” media than “social” media.
Ever increasing calls for action by the tech companies, from the public, mean that disquiet about such abuses may eventually force change. Ideas mooted include only issuing accounts to people who produce identification, rather like a bank account.
In the interim investigative television news reports and documentaries have exposed various trolls who seem notably less able to communicate quite so readily when unveiled.
The Malicious Communications Act has proven very effective legislation against the trolls and resulted in a number of convictions.
Also reporting offensive postings directly to the plaftorm can result in material being taken down and accounted being closed.
Significant case law is developing whereby a person may apply to have their name removed from a search engines if theycan sufficiently prove results repeatedly bring up material which is wrongfully associated to them. This is called the right to be forgotten and is in its formative stages.
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