[arista]

Well in another 2 days
the Judge reviews it.

[Alf]

Do they have facial hair?

Do they wear glasses?

Is it a man?

Do they wear a hat?


Is it Alex?

[James]

An injunction banning the media in England and Wales from reporting the identity of a married celebrity who allegedly took part in a threesome has been lifted.

Court of Appeal judges accepted the Sun On Sunday's bid to lift the injunction, but said the celebrity could still not be named pending a possible appeal.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36073383

[Smithy]

Tsk bloody hell

[JoshBB]

A quick google search and a canadian newspaper is reporting on it.. lol. It's funny how the internet guarantees freedom of the press nowadays

[Red Moon]

This is becoming all so stupid and pointless. James living in Scotland knows who it is while the rest of us in UK don't officially know but we can all go one the internet and look it up.

The ban achieves nothing, like JoshBB said "It's funny how the internet guarantees freedom of the press nowadays"

We seem to need a new law for a new age.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Hayden

It's not bait hun, you shouldn't be trying to get James sued or this forum shut down.

Neh, the only risk of that is if the Admin is contacted by the person involved / their legal representatives and told to remove the comments and then they fail to or refuse to do it...

These injunctions are pretty meaningless in the digital age, because they can't reasonably expect every blog / forum / social media site to monitor every single comment, or to be aware of every single injunction or piece of potential slander in the first place. The celeb sections (and probably the debates section) of TiBB are both chock full of comments that could be considered slanderous, but forum owners aren't expected to remove them UNLESS requested by someone with the authority to make such a request.

In the case of my forum back in the day, the reason we ended up being asked to remove a thread was, due to a large discussion using relevant keywords and (if I do say so myself) some pretty darn fine search optimisation... we ended up being the top google result for both the phrases "Is [person's name]'s advice dangerous?" and also simply "[person's name] dangerous"... with the content of said thread being rather, err, scathing of said individual .

Also, injunctions don't apply globally and so anyone who wants the info can just google it and it'll be on any non-UK news site . I don't know why celebs bother taking them out in the first place these days. It's like they think it's still the 80's and banning it from paper print will mean no one knows .

tl;dr - there's no real risk in leaving any comment up including names so long as you keep a close eye on your admin inbox and a finger on the delete key.

[hijaxers]

All of this really is a joke - who really bloody cares - not me , they can all shag each other to death for all i care - joke