to draw your attention to MN'ers being threatened with court for posting

[gordyslovesheep]

By Samaritan's Purse

I know I'm not the only one

who else have they decided to silence?

It's quite interesting that they dislike criticism so much

Quoting mil here.....Confused.com

It's not a charity I particularly support, but I don't think it deserves the nastiness directed at it, and people actively camplaining to stop others using it as I have seen in previous years.

humanism.org.uk/humanism/humanism-today/humanists-doing/good-causes-and-charities/samaritans-purse/
sites.google.com/site/occalert/

I understand what Rowan is saying.

If you give them your details they won't pass them on......unless there's a court order.

Rowan, what's to stop people giving you incorrect details? I set my account up with a yahoo email. I set my yahoo email up with a fake name and address. If I use a roaming IP thingy I think I'm a secret squirrel.

however I've willingly given you my correct details in the past for surveys, competitions, etc. would you pass those on if a court ordered you to?

Ironic really, the whole thing, when you read the parable of the Good Samaritan...

I can give good 'Daily Mail Sad Face' - but there are at least two of us - probably more ...check your junk boxes people!

oh and I will continue to campaign to stop others 'using' it DeWee because there are plenty of other organisations doing similar work who are much more open about their practices and beliefs

dewee it is the lack of transparency about their practice that people object to, as well as the comments made by representatives of the organisation regarding other religions and sexuality (amongst other things)

calaveras rowan has said that she is checking with others, because she cannot give a definitive answer herself

@VivaLeBeaver

I understand what Rowan is saying.

If you give them your details they won't pass them on......unless there's a court order.

Rowan, what's to stop people giving you incorrect details? I set my account up with a yahoo email. I set my yahoo email up with a fake name and address. If I use a roaming IP thingy I think I'm a secret squirrel.

however I've willingly given you my correct details in the past for surveys, competitions, etc. would you pass those on if a court ordered you to?

The Act requires us to keep an eye out for details that are obviously fake (MrsMinnieMouse of Toytown, that sort of thing).

The Act just doesn't seemed to have envisaged a circumstance in which a poster's details would already be held by the organisation for some other reason. And it probably wouldn't occur to most complainants either.

We're trying to get an answer for you and will let you know.

@Calaveras

its now 21 minutes since i asked you to clarify.

I'm still waiting.

If our posts that have been complained about are deleted, and you already have our information on file because of us being posted prizes or being panel members, can the complainant still get a court order telling you to give over our personal details?

We understand you want an answer Calaveras but we think it's best that the answer is correct, rather than swift but wrong.

But if the posts are taken down, why would there still be a court order? Am I being thick? I probably am being thick.

@PastorOfMuppets

MNHQ seem unsure on that point, Viva. Might have been an idea to brush up on what the Act actually means for an anonymous site that holds a proportion of user details for other purposes before they sent out threatening emails.

It's not in the Act, Pastor. And the mails we send out are what the Act requires us to send out. If we didn't send those mails we'd just have to delete every single post that gets complained about on the basis of libel or defamation.

Sod all religions with the
fairy tales!

with their controlling vileness and mysogynistic clap trap.

let's go for humanity, tolerance and equality.

That would be good.

(Place marking. This is quite NB.)

Simply adding the words "in my opinion" provides no protection against an action for libel. To be protected the statement must be a statement of opinion, not one of fact. So if you say, "they did X" that is clearly a statement of fact even if you add the words "in my opinion".