Have broad shoulders if you are on social media

A post on a social media platform is bound either to be appreciated or criticised and the user has to have broad shoulders to bear the criticism. DELHI HIGH COURT

- HT Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Users publishing posts on social media platforms should have broad shoulders to handle negative comments about their posts that can be subjected to appreciation or criticism, the Delhi high court has held, while dismissing a defamation suit filed by Law Sikho, an online legal education platform, against four individuals for allegedly posting defamatory posts in a conversation thread on X.

"A post published on a social media platform is bound either to be appreciated or criticised and the user has to have broad shoulders to bear the criticism," a bench of justice Manmeet PS Arora said in the February 20 verdict, released on Saturday.