To prevent Twitter posters from defying English 'privacy' legal injunctions (see Super good faith yesterday):
"... experts claim that lawyers at Schillings, who represent the professional footballer at the centre of the row, would need to file their case in California to have any success and this would require them to publicly reveal the name of their client."
Who said the law was an ass? Not in California. But surely litigants are: what clearer confirmation could there be that the Twitterers have correctly identified the footballer than to threaten to suppress them by law?
"Twitter has been seeking to find a European base in London. It is not known if the recent row has made the company change its plans."
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