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Defamation on Facebook. Better watch out, that if the car runs out of petrol....

[:en]Facebook, a space of great social and commercial interest. A new way to share one's thoughts, ideas and business insights. A new multimedia piazza.

This statement, which at first might appear to be a mere assertion of "para-sociopolitical" is actually becoming increasingly of legal interest. Indeed, one wonders what can happen if one posts an offensive comment on their profilefalse or simply vulgar? Is it to be assumed that such conduct is actually carried out in a public place or even in the press?

This question, which as you can understand, is no longer of little interest, was answered on 1 October by the Court of Livorno. The Court on this point decided the conviction of a woman for "defamation", with the aggravating circumstance ".print media"because she insulted her former employer (who had fired her) on her Facebook profile.

The Court of Livorno, has therefore created a new orientation in the jurisprudence on the merits, going against a jurisprudential orientation of the Supreme Court, according to which "for the purposes of the configurability of a criminal offence committed by means of the press, the definitions that Article 1, Law No. 47 of 1948 provides of the press and printed matter are not susceptible to analogical and/or extensive interpretation."

It will therefore be necessary for each user to pay more and more attention to the comments posted on FB, since these not only have purely social and relational consequences, but may even profile possible civil and criminal liability.

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