A set of bloggers have republished comments the readers have made under “Hraparak’s” (square) publication about Counselor Artur Grigoryan. The initiative was taken by blogger Kornelij Glas who wrote, “I want to equate a professional journalist with anonym commenters. If Counselor Artur Grigoryan wins the case, they will be able to try any blogger, Facebook user, as he will be held liable not only for his comments, but also for anyone making unserious comments.”
After blogger Koreolan had mentioned that a counselor representing Artur Grigoryan warned on “A1+” that “they will sue every one, if the comments are spread”, he proposed, “Wow, tell us to spread, bro. I will repost this right away.” Bloggers Ditord, Armenian reporter, Moonlight and others have also posted these comments on their blogs.
The comments that followed Kornelij Glas’s initiative are also interesting.
noni no mocked, “This guy is going to jail the whole Armenian virtual world, also the people who hand parcels. The people who like will get the lightest punishment – their sentence will be suspended.”
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gago berlin asked, “E.g. I can have a new T-shirt made with the posts of that day on it. Is a T-shirt also a mass mediaJ?” kornelij answered, “If you make more than a hundred of T-shirts and every day, it will become a mass media.”
Xelgen asked, “Well, guess one has scratched on someone else’s car with a nail that for example, ‘Xelgen is a bad professional and generally a spy’, will he be against, if I sue him and demand some 3 million. I don’t care, if he didn’t notice, the law allows and I sue.” And concluded, “If the court decides that the owner of a website is legally responsible for the users’ attitude, then for example, Wikipedia editors will have nothing to do, but to stop working on Wikipedia in Armenian, English and all the other languages. Everyone is human, they may come and say ‘I was offended by an article, you could have removed it, but you haven’t’.”
Let us also mention that many bloggers underlined that they were neither the supporters of the given newspaper, nor else such comments, but they think it is an issue of principle – a precedent can be created in this way.
