Removed Thread:
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 6:53 pm
Sammy h posted in the Di Maria thread:
Rather than simply ask 'why' and risk getting a straight forward response, we get a nice little dig. Ho-hum.
The club asked us to remove the thread. There were three reasons for the request.
1. The video was edited in such a manner that it deliberately cut what had gone before, which allegedly included spitting at the 'Morecambe' player.
2. The video was released by Oldham without permission. It has since been removed from their web site.
3. The video was taken without permission. Due to the age of some players being under sixteen, parental consent is required to either take the video or to make it public (not 100% sure which).
Apparently, the player is not actually a Morecambe player anyway.
The FA have been informed and there is possible legal action going to arise from this.
There isn't actually a problem for Shrimpsvoices as such as the original post simply linked to the publicly available news story. Apparently the Daily Mail had responded to the club that the video was 'available' on Shrimpsvoices. Clearly it wasn't, we just linked to them.This was made clear to the club.
However, on the basis that the thread was already on 'page 2' and had only received a couple of replies, so hadn't become a 'thread of interest', we decided to remove it. I suspect that had the De Maria thread not come up when it did, no-one would even have noticed it was gone. I don't have the depth of pockets to pay for a lawyer compared to that of the Daily Mail. I *doubt* we'd have a problem, but for the sake of a 'nothing' thread, I wasn't going to risk it for linking to a video of children that was potentially illegal.
In all the years that Shrimpsvoices has been going, the club have asked us to remove threads on probably less than half a dozen occasions and we've complied about three times.
So there you go, now the conspiracy theorists know why. And they only needed to ask.
Sammy h wrote:Looks like that thread was deleted and the original poster was not informed of a reason for it being deleted either. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Rather than simply ask 'why' and risk getting a straight forward response, we get a nice little dig. Ho-hum.
The club asked us to remove the thread. There were three reasons for the request.
1. The video was edited in such a manner that it deliberately cut what had gone before, which allegedly included spitting at the 'Morecambe' player.
2. The video was released by Oldham without permission. It has since been removed from their web site.
3. The video was taken without permission. Due to the age of some players being under sixteen, parental consent is required to either take the video or to make it public (not 100% sure which).
Apparently, the player is not actually a Morecambe player anyway.
The FA have been informed and there is possible legal action going to arise from this.
There isn't actually a problem for Shrimpsvoices as such as the original post simply linked to the publicly available news story. Apparently the Daily Mail had responded to the club that the video was 'available' on Shrimpsvoices. Clearly it wasn't, we just linked to them.This was made clear to the club.
However, on the basis that the thread was already on 'page 2' and had only received a couple of replies, so hadn't become a 'thread of interest', we decided to remove it. I suspect that had the De Maria thread not come up when it did, no-one would even have noticed it was gone. I don't have the depth of pockets to pay for a lawyer compared to that of the Daily Mail. I *doubt* we'd have a problem, but for the sake of a 'nothing' thread, I wasn't going to risk it for linking to a video of children that was potentially illegal.
In all the years that Shrimpsvoices has been going, the club have asked us to remove threads on probably less than half a dozen occasions and we've complied about three times.
So there you go, now the conspiracy theorists know why. And they only needed to ask.