“A British judge has banned Twitter users from identifying a brain-damaged woman in one of the first attempts to prevent the messaging website from revealing sensitive information.” The woman’s mother wishes to cut off her life support. [Reuters, related]
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Perhaps some kind soul will explain to the judge how the Internet in general and Twitter specifically really works, you know that whole tube thing.
Oh, and for good measure maybe where one country’s jurisdiction ends and another one’s begins.
Should be jolly good fun.
He might as well try banning the Law of Gravity. The result should be just as effective. What is wrong with Britain? Are they trying to outdo China in censoring Internet speech?
So what would the Twitter equivalent of the “Streisand effect” be called?
I sympathize with “superinjunctions” in bona-fide invasion-of-privacy cases, but not to shield companies involved in legal disputes.
“Invasion of privacy” lawsuits are consistent with US First Amendment case law, though preventive injunctions are not as common.