Twitter, justice, High Court

Injunctions break every rule of good law-making

Richard Ehrman Wed 25 May 2011, AT 10:11

Judges have created unworkable privacy law - Cameron has reason to be cross

Twitter

Can Twitter users breaking injunctions be prosecuted?

News Tue 10 May 2011, AT 13:20

Lawyers suggest the average Twitter user is safe from legal action after the apparent breach of celebrity gagging orders

Facebook Mark Zuckerberg

Could Facebook censor itself to crack China?

News Thu 21 Apr 2011, AT 16:23

‘Maybe we will block content in some countries’ says lobbyist as Obama drops in on Facebook HQ

Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptists taunt families after court win

News Thu 3 Mar 2011, AT 13:30

Extremists to ‘quadruple’ pickets of soldiers’ funerals after their right to ‘free speech’ is upheld

Muslims warn South Park after Mohammed joke

News Wed 21 Apr 2010, AT 15:23

Trey Parker and Matt Stone warned of grisly death after depicting Mohammed in a bear suit

Google China

Google vs China: don’t be evil – or don’t be second?

News Thu 14 Jan 2010, AT 12:50

Google threatens to quit China following hacking attempts and further curbs on free speech – but is there a more pragmatic reason?

Kurt Westergaard's home in Aarhus

Attack on cartoonist is great PR for panic rooms

News Sun 3 Jan 2010, AT 17:34

Kurt Westergaard escaped death last week by locking himself in his safe room

A festive surprise from libel lawyers Carter Ruck

News Mon 21 Dec 2009, AT 13:02

Who’s this defending free speech? Surely not the scourge of Fleet Street?

An olive baboon, of the kind shot AA Gill

Twitter lynch mob goes for baboon killer AA Gill

News Tue 27 Oct 2009, AT 14:39

But after Jan Moir, there are signs that Twitterers are learning to use their power more responsibly

Stephen Fry and Twitter

Fry’s ‘twitch-hunt’ of Moir sets press freedom back

News Tue 20 Oct 2009, AT 18:11

In Stephen Fry’s hands, Twitter has become an authoritarian tool to police thought crimes

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