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Can you stop the Daily Mail doing stories about MN????

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Letmehaveausername · 08/07/2016 19:05

I know it's great publicity, and I know it probably brings new users to the site and makes money etc.

But they are massively overstepping the mark making users so identifiable to whoever reads that trashy rag. MN is supposed to be anonymous, and there's a big difference between posting something on the forums you know is unlikely to ever be read by the people you know, and the daily mail advertising it to the wider world.

A lot of people post for advice, support and to get things off their chest; they don't post for a newspaper to make a mockery out of a support forum and that's exactly what they're doing.

You have to double check everything you say now in case they copy it, and change your username regularly to make sure anything they publish can't be linked back to you personally. It's ridiculous.

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HerRoyalFattyness · 08/07/2016 19:11

I am extra careful lately. Only dp knows I'm on here IRL and I know people who read that crap so I try not to be too identifying. Which is annoying as I feel I've made friends here. (I have no rl friends so you lot are stuck with me)

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 08/07/2016 19:09

The short answer is no, not easily. The Daily Mail is allowed on the Internet and they'd claim it was fair usage to report on individual threads. MN could claim it's not, and take action, as they own the copyright to what is posted here - but that would be a potentially expensive claim. I suspect the daily mail brings a lot of new users and daily views to the website too, which means MN can sell advertising for more...

I think we just have to hope that people don't read the stories, and the daily mail move on to another forum for stories.