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You’ve been served – on Twitter

Amplify’d from www.stuff.co.nz

You’ve been served – on Twitter

Britain’s High Court has ordered its first injunction via Twitter, saying the social website and micro-blogging service was the best way to reach an anonymous tweeter who had been impersonating someone.

“I think this is a landmark decision to issue a writ via Twitter,” said Dr Konstantinos Komaitis of Strathclyde University’s law faculty. “You are creating a precedent that people will be able to refer to. It only takes one litigant to open the path for others to follow,” said Komaitis, a lecturer in IT and Telecommunications.

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Twitter users remove high court gag

Amplify’d from www.guardian.co.uk

Trafigura: A few tweets and freedom of speech is restored

Twitter users claim historic victory for the power of the internet after gagging attempt on routine act of journalism triggers race among bloggers to reveal all

The Guardian story announcing that it had been restricted by an existing high court order from reporting certain parliamentary proceedings had been published online for just a matter of minutes before internet users began tearing apart the gag.

Untroubled by the legal restrictions which had confined the Guardian to reporting at 8.31pm that it had been “prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found”, internet users quickly reported that the gag related to a question by the Labour MP Paul Farrelly concerning the reporting of an incident in which toxic waste was dumped in the Ivory Coast.

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