The Supreme Court convicted a Facebook user of violation of honor for not deleting comments posted by third parties on his wall and ordered him to pay 3,000 euros to his neighbors, against whom the ratings were related.
The High Court Plenary understands that it should have acted diligently in the face of these reactions: “You can’t just ignore what is posted on your profile by other users,” reads the ruling.
The man criticized his neighbors on Facebook, with whom he had had a dispute over a job. Other people commented on his post, hurling insults, such as “garbage”, “rats”, “rabble”, towards those neighbors and even threatening them with phrases such as “I liquid them and I’ll finish them sooner” or “hire a thug”. according to the bankrupt.
The user not only did not delete the comments, but also thanked the interventions and blocked the only person who requested moderation.
“It is serious enough to reach a sanction of this type and that the Plenary has judged it,” says the defense lawyer of those affected, José López Balado, who believes that this sentence will be applicable to all social networks. “They must be cleansed of harassment, depreciation and slander. If you support these opinions you become a sort of ‘mediator author’ because if you don’t act you violate that duty, becoming responsible for the damage. And more when you are aware and aware of its existence, because there have already been previous complaints, ”he adds.
According to the lawyer, “the user has a civil liability which obliges him, by exercising his power of control, to cancel it immediately”. The sentence condemns them to delete all the comments on the bulletin board, to publish the sentence in its entirety on the Internet and to assume the payment of interest and costs.
For the lawyer, this sentence marks a before and after and warns that the comments of others must be taken into consideration so that they do not turn against them. “And even more what is published on social networks, which today are the first or second means of communication. It is direct advertising that reaches users and can have a greater impact than what is said on television or in newspapers ”, she adds.
Source: Abogacía.es
