Well sadly that was the Daily Mirror's and not mine but it was so good I could hardly let it go unnoticed. You can see the frontpage here but essentially, for those who are unaware, yesterday the super injunction saga kicked off in a big way. The supposedly unknown footballer who got himself a super injunction after an affair with Big Brother contestant, Imogen Thomas. Now most of you will know who the footballer is but fortunately for those that don't, Lib Dem MP John Hemming said in parliament on Monday, "Mr Speaker, with about 75,000 people having named Ryan Giggs it is obviously impracticable to imprison them all." So now you know. Defending his decision to use his parliamentary privelege to reveal the name, (which is why I can report it to you now, see privelege post here), "Basically when he... showed that he was going to go after relatively normal people and try and prosecute them, for gossiping about him on a matter of trivia, I think he has to be held to account for that."
I think personally that the law is wrong. I don't really care about the trivial affairs of celebrities but the fact that a person who is rich enough can block the press from reporting on their misdoings seems wrong. Of course, the injunction law comes from the privacy laws of the European Union and for more on the law behind it see my previous posts, especially look here. I also think that had the footballer in question not brought about the injunction in the first place, we the public would have long forgotten about the affair and would have been long past caring. The link to the BBC article from which the quotes are taken is here.
I think personally that the law is wrong. I don't really care about the trivial affairs of celebrities but the fact that a person who is rich enough can block the press from reporting on their misdoings seems wrong. Of course, the injunction law comes from the privacy laws of the European Union and for more on the law behind it see my previous posts, especially look here. I also think that had the footballer in question not brought about the injunction in the first place, we the public would have long forgotten about the affair and would have been long past caring. The link to the BBC article from which the quotes are taken is here.
Apologies for the lack of blogging recently, exams are upon us and in fact, that's what I should be doing right now, last minute revision. Off I go then.
Until Next Time. Stay Classy Internet.
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