Can you control what people write on twitter ?
This topic was discussed on Monday 9th May. You can download the podcast here.
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A twitter user has been revealing the names of footballers, actors and TV hosts who use gagging orders which stop newspapers reporting their private lives. Some have been inaccurate. Should social media be controlled ?
Emma BarnettÌý that anyone "who tweets or re-tweets a piece of information they know is protected by an injunction, is actually in contempt of court," but it's unlikely the authorities will begin "a witch hunt of thousands."
Danvers Baillieu, a social media lawyer at Pinsent Masons, says "unless we want to a situation like Iran, where we block off whole swathes of the internet, we cannot silence the thousands of people publishing anything they like online all of the time."
The Guardian that journalists' twitter feeds could be regulated under the Press Complaints Commission later this year. And Roy Greenslade has more about the complexities of controlling twitter .
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David Allen Green that the tabloid media want to undermine the concept of superinjunctions because the European Court of Human Rights is expected to make its decision in the Max Mosley case later this week. Mr Moseley wants papers to be forced to tell people before they publish anything about them.
Simon in Manchester posted on the Daily Mail website: "At least it stops low lives trying to sell their stories and make money by ruining other people lives!"
Christopher Hargreaves posted on Facebook: "How are you going to control it? What happened to freedom of speech in this country? And what if it's tweeted from abroad? Good luck with this one, you're are going to lose!"
Elizabeth Wilson Doles posted on Facebook: "In the US we call it freedom of the press and freedom of speech. As long is it isn't libelous, there's nothing you can do about it."
What do you think ? We're talking about this at 1700 GMT today. Post your comments here.
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