Reply to: Footballer sues Twitter

[doodab]

Admin. In addition, can we get clarification that you won't be handing over any user details to anybodies legal teams if we start to make up completely outrageous and unfounded rumours about famous people?

What sort of completely outrageous and unfounded rumours?

[MarillionFan]

Good question. Admin, can we have some clarification on whether we are risking a ticking off?

Admin. In addition, can we get clarification that you won't be handing over any user details to anybodies legal teams if we start to make up completely outrageous and unfounded rumours about famous people?

[doodab]

Why aren't we naming them?

Good question. Admin, can we have some clarification on whether we are risking a ticking off?

[d000hg]

I thought the player in question (why aren't we naming them?) was one of the boring, clean, professional ones.

[doodab]

Rumour has it that Fabio Capello has taken legal advice and won't be naming [REDACTED] in the squad for the Switzerland game.

<yes, of course it's recycled>

[doodab]

I was wondering if any action could actually be taken against these twittering people, most of whom are presumably just members of the public. I don't see how the injunction can apply to them, as they were never actually served with it and while they might suspect it applied to the person being discussed they didn't actually know for certain.

If they were threatened with legal action, surely that would result in a strong argument for overturning the original injunction as it would be in the public interest to avoid tying up the courts with prosecuting tens of thousands of people for tweeting about something that no-one really gives a tulip about anyway.

Either way, aren't professional footballers a right bunch of cocks.

[gingerjedi]

They were saying on R4 this morning that by asking for the details of the twits who posted the players name (61665) they have inadvertently prompted thousands more twits to post it too, they're calling it the 'Spartacus Effect'.

[RichardCranium]

...and it seems that a journalist is now in trouble for having named said footballer on Twitter, but we're not supposed to name the journalist (censored) either

Are we allowed to know you wrote that?

[NickFitz]

...and it seems that a journalist is now in trouble for having named said footballer on Twitter, but we're not supposed to name the journalist (Giles Coren) either

[Sysman]

The kids of the guy are going to get bullied for the fact that their dad hides it rather than the fact that he's cheated. Remember kids have screwed morals. Plus judges etc. forget that kids are better at using online resources and social media than they are.

Like this?

An England footballer has taken legal action to prevent The News Grind from revealing he had been faithful throughout his married life.

He has taken out a super-injunction which blocks the reporting of personal details about the star, who is in his twenties.

But an eleventh-hour legal challenge has allowed us to report some of the sensitive information without identifying the Premier League player.

The star, referred to in official court papers as ‘soft lad’ has been happily married for more than 12 months and never strayed.

His legal team argued that millions of pounds of sponsorship deals could be in jeopardy if details about his private life were reported.

A source close to the player said: “What sort of reputation would he have within the football world if everyone knew he loved his wife and wasn’t trying it on with WAG wannabees?

[stek]

What is the name of that Irish airline?

Aer Linctus?

[Paddy]

It already is.

What is the name of that Irish airline?

[RichardCranium]

TV star first to face jail over tweets | Mail Online

And who is the London-based TV star/writer/journalist facing contempt of court?

I just saw that as the headline of one of the papers in the shops (I didn't notice which one, but it wasn't the Daily Wail).

They said the un-named "senior journalist" had been sent to prison for Twittering the name of someone un-named.

This is just getting silly.

[doodab]

The whole world knows who CTB is.

The question now is who is TSE...?

TV star first to face jail over tweets | Mail Online

And who is the London-based TV star/writer/journalist facing contempt of court?

Don't know but there is a good article from Charlie Brooker in the Guardian.

Charlie Brooker: Winning a superinjunction no longer guarantees super-anonymity. In fact, it delivers the opposite | Comment is free | The Guardian

My theory is that CTB wishes to finish his career in America and needed to get a bit more famous there first.

[swamp]

The whole world knows who CTB is.

The question now is who is TSE...?

TV star first to face jail over tweets | Mail Online

And who is the London-based TV star/writer/journalist facing contempt of court?