Libel liability on community sites
25th May 2007, 1:17 pm
Mumsnet, the community web site for mothers, has settled its long-running libel dispute with author Gina Ford out of court. It is now looking for official government guidance on how quickly such a site should remove users’ comments to avoid liability.
Speaking to Out-law.com, Mumsnet founder explained the dilemma: “How expeditious is expeditiously? We settled because there were some comments left up there for longer than 24 hours – though not much longer than 24 hours.” http://www.out-law.com/page-8040.