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[Jimmy-T]

If you provide someone’s address and say negative things about them online, that could be classed as doxxing and get you jailed.

[See the full post at: Could naming and shaming get you jailed?]

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[Jimmy-T]

It’s a stretch, I agree, and no strata committee meber is likely to be jailed for it, although international drug cartels aren’t really the province of internet trolls.

Forget the Feds, what could happen if your average local cop were presented with a sheaf of insulting emails and harassing notes is a whole other issue. Have a look at this NSW police fact sheet, for instance.

It’s clearly a matter of degree but those chairs and secretaries who routinely use their strata minutes to belittle and abuse owners in their buildings might just take a moment to think before they hit the “name and shame” button if there’s a chance they might have strayed into the area of cyberbullying.

It’s one thing to note that the resident of apartment X has been the subject of complaints.  It would be another to issue a running commentary about their behaviour that continues for weeks and months.

I wear my frequent naming and shaming in our block’s strata minutes as a badge of pride. But I wonder if being collared by the local plods would be reason enough for a strata committee officer to be ejected under the laws that came in last month.

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Ziggy wrote:

Jimmy, just wondering what the laws are that came in last month? Did I miss that? Does it refer to strata living?

These were covered in detail about a month ago when they first came in, in this post.

And you say: It would be another to issue a running commentary about a resident’s behaviour that continues for weeks and months. How about a year? One of my neighbours has been named and shamed endlessly but has also had to put up with misleading claims and accusations about any job they want done in order to sway the owners to vote against them.

The only way to find out is to rock up to your local police station with print-outs of the negative emails and strata committee minutes, a copy of police NSW fact sheet on harassment and ask them what they think.

 

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