Four women convicted, fined for slandering singer in #metoo-related social media posts

tenchineuro · 2018-10-05T16:47:58+00:00

Four women were convicted of slander by the Helsinki District Court on Friday over a series of social media posts they made about the Finnish vocalist Tomi Metsäketo.

All four defendants were **sentenced to pay 25-day fines** amounting to between 150 and 675 euros, depending on their salaries. The court also ordered the women to pay the plaintiff’s legal fees, which amounted to some 7,400 euros.

Sentenced to pay 25-day fines? What an interesting construction.

Last autumn, Metsäketo was referred to by the women as a “serial molester” and a rapist in social media comments on Twitter and Facebook.

However it ruled that in this case the defendants had breached the limits of protection afforded by freedom of speech. It added that they had crossed that line when they implied that Metsäketo was guilty of criminal activity.

Implied? It reads like they said it outright.

This is indirect, but it's a step in the right direction.

binrobinro · 2018-10-05T20:41:06+00:00

Now they can claim to be "victims".

thrway_1000 · 2018-10-05T20:11:48+00:00

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Title	Four women convicted, fined for slandering singer in #metoo-related social media posts
Author	M8753
Upvotes	54
Comments	10
Date	October 5, 2018 4:28 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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