Thousands of Twitter users have posted reviews on a rumored affair between a British football player and a reality-TV star, and you include the name of the athlete, despite a British law that allows people to get a publication embargo "super-injunction" name. The player now has to serve the order to obtain a Court order demanding that Twitter reveal the account information of the users you've registered the name.
Twitter refused to comment on the case, which is based on an order from the British High Court. However, the company has previously fought in these cases, citing American law believes that limits the responsibility and control of user-generated content: "say, we are a company of the USA, we have [about dignity in communications] 230 here, and you are welcome to come and try your hand at suing us general counsel Alex Macgillivray said on twitter a Conference in March.
In January, co-founder Biz Stone and Macgillivray posted a statement noting: company blog
Our position on freedom of expression carries with a mandate to protect our users ' right to speak freely and retain their ability to deny having revealed their private information. While you may need to disclose information as required by law, we will try to inform users on Twitter before the delivery of information, whenever we can, therefore, have a fair chance for combat application, if they wish.
While British media companies were obliged to honor the terms of the super-injunction, Twitter is far from the only international organization that revealed the tennis-player's name. According to the New York Times, "the football player's name is now so widely known that has become a running joke, discussed — named bleeped out — prime-time television."
Legal experts see wider issues for users of social media sites if Twitter is forced to reveal the user account information, when required by domestic courts: "If you step back, this same kind of protection is really necessary to have when talking about people who are involved in a revolution or a social movement as spring Arab media lawyer Thomas r. Burke told the New York Times.
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