Solve : Twitter users: A guide to the law (UK)?

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Answer» People who tweeted photos allegedly of child killer Jon Venables are being charged with contempt of court. It's the latest in a long line of cases that suggest that ordinary SOCIAL media users need to have a grasp of media law. Journalists from traditional media are used to going on COURSES and reading works like McNae's Essential Law for Journalists. Those regularly covering court may have another level of knowledge. But the final RESORT is always to the expert advice of a media lawyer. Here are some of the categories of law on which social media users in England and Wales are coming unstuck. Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20782257What the Actual fudge. Apparently the person in question dropped the charges against any twitter user with less than 500 followers. From what I understand they are targeting one person who's "Libel" amounts to this: Quote Why is Lord McAlpine trending? innocent face I find it hard to see that as defamatory. Quote from: BC_Programmer on February 26, 2013, 02:46:16 AM I find it hard to see that as defamatory. I don't believe that is the actual tweet that caused the libel. But if the BBC re-posted up the tweet on there website then they would become libel too. It is certainly true that EVERYBODY using social media needs to have a grasp of, and obey, the law.

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People who tweeted photos allegedly of child killer Jon Venables are being charged with contempt of court. It's the latest in a long line of cases that suggest that ordinary SOCIAL media users need to have a grasp of media law.

Journalists from traditional media are used to going on COURSES and reading works like McNae's Essential Law for Journalists. Those regularly covering court may have another level of knowledge. But the final RESORT is always to the expert advice of a media lawyer.

Here are some of the categories of law on which social media users in England and Wales are coming unstuck.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20782257What the Actual fudge.

Apparently the person in question dropped the charges against any twitter user with less than 500 followers. From what I understand they are targeting one person who's "Libel" amounts to this:

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Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*

I find it hard to see that as defamatory. Quote from: BC_Programmer on February 26, 2013, 02:46:16 AM

I find it hard to see that as defamatory.

I don't believe that is the actual tweet that caused the libel. But if the BBC re-posted up the tweet on there website then they would become libel too. It is certainly true that EVERYBODY using social media needs to have a grasp of, and obey, the law.

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