No More Bothering Comments

The lecturer of cyberlaw - Dr. Sonny Zulhuda- guided the class how to protect our self from defamation issues especially in our blogs.He pointed at two options that we have when one particular comment try to defame one person in our blogs.The first one is replying to that comment in order to reject it and showing the disagreement to that comment and making our self away from defamation others. The second item which he explained it as a easier way, is simply delete the comment. I think even though this kind of recommendation seems very simple but on the other hand can prevent many fundamental issues in the future. To proving how subtle ways they are, I have to show you this case which happened earlier in Dubai.

A UAE online magazine has to shut down for one month and ordered to pay Dh10,000 in damages for defamation.The case is about an article published by the magazine under the title "Abu Dhabi TV: Emirate TV only in name", But the case was not related to an article by the editor or the journalist, and was only about comments posted by readers. The judge said comments should were replied or the website manager should deleted them.The web manager said the huge number of comments on the article demonstrated the interest of visitors in the subject, and also demonstrated that it was hard for them to carefully read all the comments.

So after reading this case do you agree with me we should be more careful listeners especially to the lecturer?!

Reference of news:

http://gulfnews.com/