To hope the Irish online abuse law gets made in the uk

[vkocy]

By Christmas in Ireland it will be a criminal offense to stalk or harras someone online. This will protect the Irish instamums who have their life ripped to shreds on places like Mumsnet and tattle. Shouldn't this be made law in the UK also? Just because someone is on Instagram it doesn't mean you should be allowed to say whatever you want about them

Congratulations to Nicole's DM fighting for Coco's law.
Hopefully it protects others while allowing free speech to an extent.

Persistent bullying and stalking such as in @SorryImKnew case are what this law is designed to protect in Ireland. I’m sorry you went through that.

The main instagrammers I’ve seen get really excited over it and want to push for it in the U.K. are those who persistently refuse to declare AD/PR work and think they could use the law to protect them against people who report them to the ASA for it. That’s not the point of the law. Maybe I’m watching the wrong people on insta .

As a PP said, putting your life up for public consumption means you have to accept a certain level of criticism, in the same way people criticise tv shows and films surely?

It's good that it covers revenge porn too. I think (?) the UK already have legislation covering that?

@SorryImKnew

It's good that it covers revenge porn too. I think (?) the UK already have legislation covering that?

Yup. Revenge Porn is a criminal offence here.

We covered this last week in the post you created under whatever username you were using at the time. YABU.

@raddledoldmisanthropist

Why is it a bad thing to ask for evidence and not beleive someone and the words they've typed out

Implying that an OP is lying is not permitted on MN. Similarly implying that a poster is abusive just because they disagree with you is pretty rude- you forgot to reply to my request for proof of your assertion.

I think perhaps you are just used to a lower standard of discussion than the one found here on MN, OP. #bekind.

Babes that's not what I did at all. I said there was no evidence and asked for a screen shot.

Would be foolish to beleive what people say on a message board without any evidence 🙏

vkocy can you really not understand why someone in receipt of a letter accusing them of defamation for writing a negative review and threatening them with court might not want to splash the details all over mumsnet?

Some of the admin of the Style Sisterhood facebook group have seen the letters and as they use their real names and photos I believe them. (I believed the mumsnetters anyway).

‘Babes’ 😏