The Internet gave way for people to interact with each other
quickly and effectively through social media and electronic messaging. However,
this also gave way for many people to post offensive and obscene methods of
expressing themselves through messages, pranks and deliberate meanness. Here
are a few ways you could defend yourself against social media defamation in the
United Kingdom.
1.
Defamation Bill 2013
On April 23, 2013, the UK Lords passed a defamation bill
that would stop cases against journalists, academics or individuals who live
outside the cases to reduce the amount of libel in the United Kingdom. The law
makes filing for libel in social media a bit more difficult because you will
need to prove the social effects of the defamation before the law can take
action.
2.
Copy Important Documents
Conversations, mocking social media profiles, wall posts,
tweets, blogs and virtually anything that shows defamation against you or any
party, organization or other business must be documented and saved. Copying important
documents like these online on soft copies serve as evidence in your future
defamation case against the defamer.
3.
Leeway
In the Internet, defamation is different from cyberbullying.
If a threat was issued against a person, they could just have the individual surveyed
by authorities in case they prove true to their promise. Cyberbullying is
intently defaming a person. Defamation, in itself, is a negative branding of a
person, company or organization. There is leeway given to defamation than
cyberbullying.
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