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Tweeter To Be Prosecuted, Twitter Now Censoring?
Andy Smith writes "Slashdot has already covered the super-injunctions furore in the UK, with one famous footballer going after an anonymous Twitter user who broke a court order and revealed his extra-marital affair. Now another footballer has asked the attorney general to prosecute a well-known journalist and TV personality, who went against another super-injunction and wrote about this footballer, again on Twitter. Meanwhile, going back to the first footballer, it looks like he's got Twitter running scared, as the site is apparently blocking his name from appearing on the trend list, despite him being one of the most tweeted-about people."
What makes you think that's the reason for his taking out the injunction? It has been suggested that she, in association with a UK newspaper, had photographs taken of their leaving a hotel after a meeting she arranged at which she asked for a very large sum of money to keep their story private. That amounts to blackmail and would give the court ample reason to prevent her, or the paper, from publishing the story.