{"id":86161,"date":"2013-09-05T08:44:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T06:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=86161"},"modified":"2013-09-05T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T08:31:14","slug":"beware-defamatory-facebook-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/86161-beware-defamatory-facebook-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware defamatory Facebook comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman and her husband have been ordered by the High Court in Pretoria to pay the husband’s ex-wife R40,000 after defaming her on Facebook<\/a>, The Star newspaper reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The ex-wife took the couple to court as she felt two postings especially on the wife’s Facebook wall were defamatory.<\/p>\n

One of the wife’s reported posting’s was: “To all moms and dads… what do you think of people who allow step-brothers to bath their little sisters each night, simply because it would make the mother’s life easier???”.<\/p>\n

Judge Jan Hiemstra on Wednesday ordered the woman, who is a senior manager at the SA Revenue Service and who authored the posts, and her husband who was tagged in them, to compensate the husband’s ex-wife, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Hiemstra said that even though the husband did not author the posts, he was tagged, knew about them, and allowed his name to be coupled with his new wife.<\/p>\n

The husband and ex-wife were embroiled in legal proceedings, with the ex-wife granted an interdict against him last year to prevent him from coming near her home or work.<\/p>\n

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Facebook wants to add profile photos to facial recognition tech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is what South Africa\u2019s Internet looks like<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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