Trial By Twitter: Is Calling Someone A Pedophile Going Too Far?
Everyone knows pedophiles are horrible people – and Anonymous did an excellent job of ‘outing’ some of them not too long ago.
But unless you are 100% sure that someone deserves this label, tossing the word around is not only horribly mean, it can lead to defamation charges – as some folks in the UK are apparently about to find out.
Lord McAplsine, former Tory party treasurer, is taking on folks who think they can put innocent people on ‘trial by Twitter.’
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