Currybetdotnet: Protecting the identity of Baby P’s killers: The courts vs the people vs the Internet
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 12:35
Martin Belam: "Trying to stick to the terms of the court order preserving the anonymity of 'Baby P''s killers has been very testing for a lot of sites online. … cache on Monday afternoon still contained a BBC News report from late last year that not only named those charged with the death of 'Baby P', but also the toddlers proper name, and, incredibly, their street addresses. … A Telegraph report initially from around the same time could also be located in Google…"
Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: Naming Baby P is not about giving in to a Facebook campaign
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 12:33
"Naming Baby P and his mother is not about giving in to a hysterical Facebook campaign group; this is about confronting the reality of the online age."
Independent: Facebook vigilantes identify mother of Baby P
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 12:31
"The identity of the 27-year-old mother of Baby P was last night being circulated on the internet with the names of her boyfriend and the third man convicted of causing the child's death, after online vigilantes began a campaign calling for violent retribution against them. An order issued by the judge who oversaw the trial of the woman and her boyfriend forbids details about them…"
Sarah Hartley: Four legal dangers of links in articles and blogs
Sunday, 12 October 2008, 08:49
Sarah Hartley lists some potential legal risks for UK newspapers that include links to external sites - or even their own archive - in their copy…
BBC: Radio 4: iPM: Online court records and prejudice.
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 23:34
"one of the prejudicial things one might read in such online archives would be details of the accused previous convictions. Which brings us back to Jack Straw's proposal to reveal online, 'what happened when someone appears in the dock'. Would these records similarly present a risk of prejudice?"
Editor & Publisher: Bill Proposed to Extend N.Y. Shield Law to Bloggers
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 08:12
New York state Sen. Thomas Duane has "proposed legislation that would protect bloggers from contempt-of-court charges for refusing to disclose confidential information or sources."
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 16:48
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"So not only would every news organisation have to remove material from their servers, so would every search engine and news aggregator. And what about blogs, messageboards and social networking sites? What about sites that are not hosted in this country?
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 16:47
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"Articles relating to high-profile court cases should be removed from online news archives, the former Lord Chancellor has told the BBC."
Friday, 23 November 2007, 16:14
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"Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin says he wants to formalise the right of journalists to refuse to reveal their sources by incorporating it in legislation."
Sunday, 18 November 2007, 11:26
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"Attorneys for a former high school football coach convicted in the shooting death of his pregnant wife wants the Houston Chronicle to identify a reader who posted a comment about the case on the newspaper’s Web site."
Saturday, 17 November 2007, 08:58
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A 13-year-old girl commits suicide after cyberbullying by two adults. A newspaper choses not to name the adults, but bloggers do …
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 14:38
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BBC Scotland’s Mark Coyle on the ethical dilemna about linking to illegal content, such as the camera phone footage taken during a case at the High Court in Glasgow.
Wednesday, 3 October 2007, 13:05
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Guardian readers’ editor Siobhain Butterworth on why comments are closed on some Cif posts.
Monday, 13 August 2007, 08:06
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"Indeed, US reporters might fare better in Britain. Both the Contempt of Court Act and European rights laws acknowledge the right to protect sources."
