Trolls on 'dragging sites' can ruin lives. It's time they answered for their actions | Sali Hughes

Suppose a website published hundreds of false allegations about your work, relationship and personal life. That, say, you’d had your hand in the till, were accepting bribes from clients, were abusive to an employee, had plagiarised a peer’s design. Let’s also say – if you can bear it – that the same site claimed your past was a fabrication, your kids were neglected, your marriage simply a means of acquiring a free nanny. You’d just get it taken down, yes? See your union rep and lawyer, take the website to the cleaners for libel, defamation, harassment, and see