Daily Mail posting chunks of threads online- has this been agreed with MNHQ?

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Can we have some clarification from MNHQ please on the legality of the Mail plundering MN and quoting posters? Is the Mail allowed to do this and are MN in agreement with it? Just asking as a thread from Chat has been lifted and is in the Mail with quotes from various posters.

usual. Sometimes AIBU does resemble the DM comments section.

I've been here about 5 and a half years and it's always been full of DM readers to be fair.

Until I joined, I never gave the newspaper a second thought. Now I seem to be reading about it on a daily basis.

Nowt wrong with that. People can choose whatever newspaper they want, but I don't understand the ones who read it/link to it and then start moaning about it.

Mumsnet is a business. It needs to make money to carry on. So when threads are linked in the DM it creates more clicks over here which is what the advertisers are after. It doesn't matter if the people are lovely or not it's all about the clicks.

You have to accept that if you want to use the site.

Why do people care enough to change their name in the hopes that the DM won't quote them?

Why does anyone really care anyway? No one should post anything they won't be happy to read on the front page of a newspaper. There is no such thing as privacy on a message board.

Before I post anything identifying I always ask myself if I would be ok with everyone I know reading it. If I am not I don't post it.

If I needed support of a sensitive topic name changing and changing some details would work.

I don't see the issue.

The problem for me is as follows:

1. I think the DM is a hateful publication because it has a modus operandi history of stirring up hatred against disadvantaged groups such as women, homosexuals and refugees.

1. Traffic to the DM website generates revenue for the DM via its sponsorship partners.

1. When the DM lifts material from MN, it quickly creates clickable material without much journalistic input.

1. They almost always give it an anti-feminist slant if at all possible.

I don't really want my content which I'm happy to share under the MN banner ("by parents for parents") to be used by the DM to increase its revenue (2) without using up its resources (3) whilst simultaneously being used (4) to vindicate its hateful position (1).

That's about it for me. Just as I'm happy to provide craft activities for a particular set of children, but would be vastly unamused to have a dozen of the BNP Junior Section dumped on my doorstep to make felt golliwogs.