homophobic name calling on website

oisindoyle

Not sure if this is the right place to post this (apologies mods if i got it wrong )....
If a person on a forum name calls another ,makes very anti gay, homophobic comments against another ,is there anything that can be done about it ?
Most reputable sites have mods and would stamp this kind of hate speech out immediately.Yet for some reason this particualar mod did nothing ,depsite a message requesting that the poster be banned .
What sort of recourse does someone have in this instance ?

MagicSean

Don't use the forum

Garry G

Pardon the pun, but you give it but wont take it:o

CIARAN_BOYLE

oisindoyle wrote: »

Not sure if this is the right place to post this (apologies mods if i got it wrong )....
If a person on a forum name calls another ,makes very anti gay, homophobic comments against another ,is there anything that can be done about it ?
Most reputable sites have mods and would stamp this kind of hate speech out immediately.Yet for some reason this particualar mod did nothing ,depsite a message requesting that the poster be banned .
What sort of recourse does someone have in this instance ?

Forward the message to an appropiate control mod

oisindoyle

oisindoyle wrote: »

What sort of recourse does someone have in this instance ?

There's no law against hating people no matter how bull**** the reasons are and there shouldn't be. If someone says something offensive then ignore them or stop frequenting the page they posted on.

Garry G wrote: »

Pardon the pun, but you give it but wont take it:o

This isn't a pun and it also is not pardonable. Even if it were a pun it's not even in the same neighbourhood as funny. Also Garry G as a name to make a gay joke? Should have saved post no.1 for some future paedophile thread, no?

ResearchWill

Deleted User wrote: »

There's no law against hating people no matter how bull**** the reasons are and there shouldn't be. If someone says something offensive then ignore them or stop frequenting the page they posted on.




This isn't a pun and it also is not pardonable. Even if it were a pun it's not even in the same neighbourhood as funny. Also Garry G as a name to make a gay joke? Should have saved post no.1 for some future paedophile thread, no?

While there may not be any law that can stop persons hating, any person who acts on their hatred of another may be in breach of Prohibition of Incitement To Hatred Act, 1989, Relevant section http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1989/en/act/pub/0019/sec0002.html#sec2

biko

I suppose it would depend on the matter of the posts.
"I hate you because you're facking gay" probably wouldn't hold much water.
"Kill all gays" is more in line with incitement to hate.

Is the site even Irish?

ResearchWill

biko wrote: »

I suppose it would depend on the matter of the posts.
"I hate you because you're facking gay" probably wouldn't hold much water.
"Kill all gays" is more in line with incitement to hate.

Is the site even Irish?

While Ireland has not gone the way of the UK http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0327/breaking17.html both examples you give could in certain circumstances lead to a prosecution.

Also as long as the site is viewable in Ireland and the poster can be identified then it would not really matter where the site was hosted.

Maximilian

OP, take it up with the mods of the forum to which you refer. If you get no joy there, take it up with the relevant cmod.

Warning issued to Garry G.

Thread closed.