Facebook sued by Irish father over sexual photos of girl (12)

Mike 1972

El Weirdo wrote: »

To be fair, it's the British taxpayer that's footing the bill for this one.

Why the thread title then

Is he an immigrant ?

Gophur

FB should be sued for this, the father of the child is correct.

FB is a hideous creation. I cannot see why so many people have taken to it with such an addiction. Posting cr4p than nobody cares about, to people who don't give a toss..

FB has a responsibility to ensure children are not exploited. So far it seems FB are dodging this responsibility, their controls are far too loose.

booboo88

My name is URL wrote: »

There's no point in me arguing any further obviously.. people will as always come to their own conclusion regardless of the facts which are known. It reminds my of this case. People fully blamed the parents there too.. after a bike fell from a 14ft shelf and almost hit a two year old. Some even accuse the two year old of faking PTSD. People seem to think that corporations should be exempt from any responsibility whatsoever.

Are you actually serious? I've had things fall near me too when I was a kid, Im sure I've even fallen a few times as a kid, ffs. the world has gone mad.

My name is URL wrote: »

Well you seem to have it all worked out.. you know that for a fact do you? No leap of logic there at all..

It doesnt take rocket science, or does it:rolleyes:

booboo88

Gophur wrote: »

FB should be sued for this, the father of the child is correct.

FB is a hideous creation. I cannot see why so many people have taken to it with such an addiction. Posting cr4p than nobody cares about, to people who don't give a toss..

FB has a responsibility to ensure children are not exploited. So far it seems FB are dodging this responsibility, their controls are far too loose.

Im sure theres a few people think the same of boards??
Facebook should not be sued for someones laziness

My name is URL

booboo88 wrote: »

Are you actually serious? I've had things fall near me too when I was a kid, Im sure I've even fallen a few times as a kid, ffs. the world has gone mad.

Seriously.. you don't think the shop in that case should be blamed in any way for storing their goods unsafely and in a way which could cause serious injury? What if it had hit the kid.. would they be responsible then?

It doesnt take rocket science, or does it:rolleyes:

Evidently not!

wild_cat

Gophur wrote: »

FB is a hideous creation. I cannot see why so many people have taken to it with such an addiction. Posting cr4p than nobody cares about, to people who don't give a toss..

Is no one liking your status updates or something?

123balltv

Gophur wrote: »

FB should be sued for this, the father of the child is correct.

FB is a hideous creation. I cannot see why so many people have taken to it with such an addiction. Posting cr4p than nobody cares about, to people who don't give a toss..

FB has a responsibility to ensure children are not exploited. So far it seems FB are dodging this responsibility, their controls are far too loose.

if I won the euromillions tonight I'd give millions to see the end of facestalker 10% use it to stay in touch the rest use it for spying/stalking

Helix

123balltv wrote: »

if I won the euromillions tonight I'd give millions to see the end of facestalker 10% use it to stay in touch the rest use it for spying/stalking

youd need to win about 500 euromillions rollovers to have any chance of being able to accomplish that

Helix

Gophur wrote: »

FB should be sued for this, the father of the child is correct.

FB is a hideous creation. I cannot see why so many people have taken to it with such an addiction. Posting cr4p than nobody cares about, to people who don't give a toss..

FB has a responsibility to ensure children are not exploited. So far it seems FB are dodging this responsibility, their controls are far too loose.

lets say a 12 year old signs up for boards today. they say that they're over the age of 13 in the sign up, and then they post a load of nude photos of themselves. is that boards fault? no, its not

is it boards fault if they're made aware of the pictures, but take no action to remove them immediately and report the issue to the authorities? yes, it is

the same goes for facebook

El Weirdo

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Why the thread title then

Is he an immigrant ?

The guy is from Co. Antriim.

123balltv

Helix wrote: »

youd need to win about 500 euromillions rollovers to have any chance of being able to accomplish that

I can dream

Mike 1972

FFS Just because one may detest facebook and all it stands for doesnt mean the case under discussion has any merit or that the guy bringing it is anything other than an utter tool.

El Weirdo wrote: »

The guy is from Co. Antriim.

Hence the question :pac:

El Weirdo

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Hence the question :pac:

Oooooh... controversial!

:pac:

booboo88

Anyone got an update on this?

lucozader

it's up to the parents to control what their children do

Temptamperu

Children should not have cell phones to take these pictures on.

But oh how are my going to get in touvh with my "little angels" without a phone?
The same way you did for the entire histroy of the human race. Phones are only around at most 15 years. Kid says hes going to be at his friends house ring the friends mom to make sure or if you have a message.

Children should not be allowed on a computer in their bedroom or anywhere they are unsupervised.

This guy has no one to blame but himself.

parker kent

Temptamperu wrote: »

But oh how are my going to get in touvh with my "little angels" without a phone? The same way you did for the entire histroy of the human race. Phones are only around at most 15 years.

You could say the same about any invention. Why do you need an oven when humans cooked over a fire before it was invented? Why do you buy clothes when humans skinned animals and made their own? Mobile phones are incredibly handy and I'm sure there are plenty of incidents that occurred in the past that may have been prevented had they existed.

Of course there will always be negatives to anything new, but that's why people try their best to educate kids. Even then shít will still happen. So long as teenagers hit puberty, they will find ways to do stupid stuff.

Temptamperu

parker kent wrote: »

You could say the same about any invention. Why do you need an oven when humans cooked over a fire before it was invented? Why do you buy clothes when humans skinned animals and made their own? Mobile phones are incredibly handy and I'm sure there are plenty of incidents that occurred in the past that may have been prevented had they existed.

Of course there will always be negatives to anything new, but that's why people try their best to educate kids. Even then shít will still happen. So long as teenagers hit puberty, they will find ways to do stupid stuff.

But people arent educating their children they are just blindly handing out technology and then when something goes bad they blame the tech.

parker kent

Temptamperu wrote: »

But people arent educating their children they are just blindly handing out technology and then when something goes bad they blame the tech.

A bit of a wild generalisation. You don't hear about the kids that use it sensibly.

J_E

"I was able to access this girl's Facebook page myself before we issued the writ. She has more than 485 friends ... some from the western provinces of Nigeria," she revealed.

sigh, again unnecessary sensationalism with unnecessary information.

Buford T Justice

Helix wrote: »

lets say a 12 year old signs up for boards today. they say that they're over the age of 13 in the sign up, and then they post a load of nude photos of themselves. is that boards fault? no, its not

is it boards fault if they're made aware of the pictures, but take no action to remove them immediately and report the issue to the authorities? yes, it is

the same goes for facebook

Fair point, but Boards is moderated and would remove the photo's next to immediately and ban the user. This didn't happen with Facebook

geeky

booboo88 wrote: »

Anyone got an update on this?

LOL

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Helix

Buford T Justice wrote: »

Fair point, but Boards is moderated and would remove the photo's next to immediately and ban the user. This didn't happen with Facebook

do we actually klnow that the images were reported without the reports being acted upon?

smash

Helix wrote: »

do we actually klnow that the images were reported without the reports being acted upon?

No, but we know the photos weren't nude. They were "sexually suggestive" according to the father. For all we know they could have been holiday snaps in a bikini ffs.