Internet clampdown as rape claim football stars named

[dahamsta]

Internet clampdown as rape claim football stars named (http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=27&si=1056231&issue_id=9870&printer=1)

THE names of eight top English footballers linked with the alleged gang rape of a teenager were still widely available on the internet last night despite attempts to close down the websites.

Some soccer website message boards and chatrooms were closed, but others continued to speculate on which high-profile Premiership stars were at the centre of the police investigation.

Office workers who have sent e-mails speculating about the identities of the footballers were warned last night that they could face libel action. In an unprecedented move, solicitors representing players are targeting individuals in an attempt to silence cyber-gossip.

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[pete]

What websites would they be? ;)


Office workers who have sent e-mails speculating about the identities of the footballers were warned last night that they could face libel action.

Next they'll be sending solicitors into pubs to stop people talking about it.

:rolleyes:

[The Donie Forde]

Originally posted by Conor74
Adam and Joe buy me drink in the Horshoe ...


Slim and...

Donie :D

[joe]

Originally posted by Conor74
Joe buy me drink in the Horshoe

somehow you feel i should be the one to buy you drink, eh?

;)

[James]

Originally posted by Conor74
I thought of an interesting blackmail threat - Adam and Joe buy me drink in the Horshoe OR ELSE I'll put the names on here!!!;)

*cough* pre-emptive Ban for conor */cough*

can i do it joe? can i, can i ?

- james

[niamh]

They can't control what's said on the Internet - that's the point of the Internet. The players shouldn't be named unless there is enough evidence to charge them. Regardless their names will come out eventuall because people know who they are and they will want to plead their innocence or whatever. Trying to hold website owners at ransom for what other people are saying is ridulous but unfortunately libel happens...

[Duncan Gardner]

It's not the internet's fault, or the service providers, or the talk boards that we all know or think we know the players' identities. It's whoever leaked the names in the first place. And it may have been many different people.

But newish technology isn't really that significant. There have been media around capable of spreading rumour quickly to a huge audience since the 18th century.

[dahamsta]

Originally posted by Conor74
I thought of an interesting blackmail threat - Adam and Joe buy me drink in the Horshoe OR ELSE I'll put the names on here!!!;) Hands up who thinks Conor deserves a ban for threatening the admins? :)

adam

[A face]

Originally posted by Vetinari
Hands up who thinks Conor deserves a ban for threatening the admins? :)

adam

Better still, an eye for an eye .... Conor to get the beers in next visit to the shoe !!