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Sulph Urges Social Media Restraint
posted (January 17, 2019)

So while Sulph reflects on his lessons learnt, many avid social media users continue to quarrel and beef on Facebook, essentially tip toeing on the line of legal liability. And while Sulph distances himself from that bunch, he says Facebook users do need to exercise more restraint and avoid learning the hard-way like he did.

Moses Sulph - Lost Defamation Case
"I've always tried to stick to the issue at hand and when people lack information about the issue then they become personal. I am saying that at no point was my post ever personal, it was based on the fact of trying to, in my eyes, justice for people who needed justice. For those who want slander people or without justification because slander it has to be justification that proven that your actually intending to defame that person. In all fairness I would say that, Facebook I think is being used many times in the wrong way, I think it should be more to inform and to see how we can utilize in coming together and all of that but the thing with Facebook, once you post it, somebody screenshot it, somebody keep it, somebody have it. So it is more easier for you to be liable because if you have a conversation with a person face to face and you have a quarrel and tell them something, there is no real proof unless somebody is recording it but on Facebook - but there is still freedom of speech just try to be honest as possible."

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