RadioStation300”
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Hello
I'm writing from a small no profit internet radio station
On of our station presenter was doing a show reading some tweets addressed to the station itself about the topic discussed.
While reading one of the tweets the presenter noticed that the tweet contained a sort of accusation against another user that was tweeting in the discussion.
While reading it, the presenter jumped the name accused, therefore did not mention it.
However we have received threat of legal action from this person. We have explained to him that we didn't mention his name (we have the recording and we have double checked it). I was wondering if anyone could indicate me or what is the legislation in these cases, as we are a very small station and we are genuinely scared despite we don't think we have done nothing wrong reading tweets that were public (with the hashtag indicated from the station) and jumping names? We only ever mentioned the name of the tweet author, never other names when involved.
I don't think the person mentioned in the tweet
is identifiable. The tweet is something like "there's people like xxxx that create false profile just to offend".
The presenter did read the tweet . But paused and didn't mention "XXXX" (the name).
The person mentioned had previously sent a tweet to the conversation and his tweet was read as it didn't contain names. However between his tweet and the tweet that accused it, there's been at least 15 minutes on air when we broadcasted 2 songs and read another tweet.
I know the tweet is clear. It's there and the person who tweeted that is responsible for what he alleged. I was wondering what is the situation for the station, reading a tweet (publicly visible) , and omitting the name that contained allegations
I'm writing from a small no profit internet radio station
On of our station presenter was doing a show reading some tweets addressed to the station itself about the topic discussed.
While reading one of the tweets the presenter noticed that the tweet contained a sort of accusation against another user that was tweeting in the discussion.
While reading it, the presenter jumped the name accused, therefore did not mention it.
However we have received threat of legal action from this person. We have explained to him that we didn't mention his name (we have the recording and we have double checked it). I was wondering if anyone could indicate me or what is the legislation in these cases, as we are a very small station and we are genuinely scared despite we don't think we have done nothing wrong reading tweets that were public (with the hashtag indicated from the station) and jumping names? We only ever mentioned the name of the tweet author, never other names when involved.
I don't think the person mentioned in the tweet
is identifiable. The tweet is something like "there's people like xxxx that create false profile just to offend".
The presenter did read the tweet . But paused and didn't mention "XXXX" (the name).
The person mentioned had previously sent a tweet to the conversation and his tweet was read as it didn't contain names. However between his tweet and the tweet that accused it, there's been at least 15 minutes on air when we broadcasted 2 songs and read another tweet.
I know the tweet is clear. It's there and the person who tweeted that is responsible for what he alleged. I was wondering what is the situation for the station, reading a tweet (publicly visible) , and omitting the name that contained allegations