Joanna Geary: Online Protests – why do they make me uneasy?
Wednesday, 28 October 2009, 15:57
"I’ve seen many use the Jan Moir affair as an example of democracy in action. It is certainly true that the will of many people led to the removal of advertising from an offensive and homophobic article and an apology from its author. Now you can’t say that’s a bad thing… can you? So why do I feel so uneasy about it?"
Wikipedia: Streisand effect
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:44
Already amended with references to Trafigura and Carter-Ruck: "The Streisand effect is an Internet phenomenon where an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information backfires, causing the information to be widely publicized. … Mike Masnick originally coined the term Streisand effect in reference to a 2003 incident where Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for US$50 million in an attempt to have the aerial photo of her house removed from the publicly available collection of 12,000 California coastline photographs, citing privacy concerns."
BBC News: When is a secret not a secret?
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:36
Nick Higham: "No injunction has been served on the BBC, but ever since the Spycatcher case in the 1980s, news organisations which knowingly breach an injunction served on others are in contempt of court – so the corporation too is bound by the Guardian injunction. But the lawyers in this case clearly reckoned without the blogosphere. In the anarchic, anything-goes world of the internet, where freedom of speech is a frequently heard rallying cry, injunctions banning publication of anything are unpopular. This one seems to have acted like a red rag to a bull."
One Man and His Blog: The Day Twitter Destroyed a Gagging Order
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:33
Adam Tinworth: "a disparate, disaggregated group of individuals were able to work out the basics of what happened, and use Twitter to make the gagging order meaningless. That was mass, connected journalism at its finest."
ZDNet UK: Twitter, Trafigura, trends and treason
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:31
Rupert Goodwins: "Over the past 24 hours, the news about the injunction and the injuncted material was more effectively distributed across the planet than any army of PR merchants and marketing gurus could have hoped to have achieved … It will be a while before the implications of the Trafigura affair are fully absorbed: if nothing else, it will make litigous parties think twice before issuing the sort of absolute injunctions which have been growing in popularity even as their powers to hide from scrutiny have increased. "
Telegraph: Trafigura tops list of Twitter trending topics
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 14:28
Hmm. I wonder why?
