Anonymous insults on the web are defamation

PInsults on Facebook even if addressed to someone whose name became click and read of a restricted circle of members can lead to a conviction for defamation. He says the Supreme Court, which has postponed a retrial acquitted of the Commissioner Chief of the Guardia di Finanza: had published on social networking site an offensive phrase to a colleague, without naming it and a vulgar expression for the wife of the latter./PPBy the offensive phrase, which had offended the reputation of Marshal instead appointed at the helm of the company, the defendant was sentenced by a military to three months in prison for defamation military pluriaggravata./PPOn appeal it was acquitted by lack in fact, from the identification of the person offence – he explained the military court of appeal in Roma-es possible only by a small circle of subjects compared to General users of the social network information. In action, the military prosecutor, said that on the contrary, publication in Facebook has particular knowledge of offensive phrases by multiple “obscure subjects enrolled in social networks and that no one, colleague or acquaintance of the accused, could identify the person offended.” The first criminal division of the Court of appeal has recognized that the phrase was “broadly accessible”, as shown in “profile’ call”and the identification of the offence the person favoured by the adverb”now”referring to the function of command covered./PPAmong other things “the crime of defamation does not require specific intent”, but “awareness of a sentence of others reputation and adversely affect the provision that the sentence learns only two people”. In the opinion of the Court, “the judge of second instance not properly indicated referred to legal reasons logic so that they limit the number of people capable of identifying the subject of the sentence in passive defamatory content determines the exclusion of evidence of the will of the accused to communicate with the people most able to identify the person”.BR/P
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