Thomas is now suing Twitter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1Mv6vAhfX
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Documents filed at London's High Court confirm the Premier League star, who won an anonymity order banning the media from publishing stories about his alleged affair with the reality-TV star Miss Thomas, launched the action on May 18.
The action claims 'persons unknown' are described as those 'responsible for the publication of information on the Twitter accounts'.
It refers to the widely-reported posting on May 8 of a series of Tweets purporting to name a number of celebrities who had obtained injunctions.
It comes as an inquiry admitted today that injunctions used to cover up the alleged affairs of the rich and famous are impossible to police on social networking sites such as Twitter.
Twitter is based in San Francisco, California, with servers and offices in San Antonio, Texas, and Boston, Massachusetts.
It is not known if the company has any assets in Britain. It is therefore outside the jurisdiction of British courts, making legal action more complicated.
There would also be difficulty in identifying who actually wrote the Tweets, many of which were 're-tweeted', or published again by other users.
'It was only a question of time before someone who has obtained a super-injunction, would try to bring proceedings for contempt of court against the Tweeters and those supplying them with the information at an injuncted newspaper,' Jennifer McDermott, head of media and public law at Withers LLP, told the Telegraph.
'To do this, a Court application will first be made to get Twitter to divulge the identities of the relevant ''wrongdoers'' and, if successful, contempt proceedings could then be brought against them, which could result in them being fined or even imprisoned.'
She said that legal proceedings against Twitter would be 'arduous' process because it is based in California where 'free speech rules'.
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Hahahahahaha ..... I hope the Yanks tell &$*^ £*)%$ to FO .....
