Injunction with a difference.
Luckily I’m not a media man, other wise my site would being a hell of a lot more views, so I don’t think I’m covered by the injection. I’m also Lucky I that I don’t have a Clue who these injunctions apply too, and lucky nor do I care.
The who’s who hiding behind these things is not my concern really. The huge mockery of freedom of speech and law that has been brought about by it all is.
If this was all about trying to stop black mail, he should of thought more about it, hit the whole thing head on, and give his side, including teary eyed admission of guilt and request for forgiveness. That way he’s headed it all off, quashed any and all attempts to make him look like the ‘bad guy’ and show the ‘woman’ as an evil cow.
Any PR/lawyer worth his salt would of said that, rather than what has happened now.
So lets face it, this has never been about blackmail.
This has however been about protecting one’s whiter than white image. And he, who ever he is, has tried to go to great lengths to do this, stopping the press from talking about it and stopping the woman form talking about it. And why has he done this? Was the act of which he has done, but we [anybody] can’t mention, so bad that it’d offend even the most liberal person? Was their a donkey involved? I Hope there wasn’t a donkey involved! Can you imagine that, some form of footballer 3some where one of the percipients is respectable? And more importantly do we care?
Maybe, maybe not. But let’s face facts; was anyone of us surprised that a footballer had an affair? Would anyone be shocked when it comes out? Would anyone care for long? No. Would it of been over within two weeks if it had been played out in the press? Yes.
But as it’s has happened, “the story came to light” weeks ago, and has only remained so because we couldn’t talk about it. The fact that it wasn’t a story became the story, and then come Friday it got kicked up a notch.
Why oh why does any lawyer/PR (wo)man think fighting the internet is a good idea, Especially if you want a story to die?
For those unaware the man in question, who can only be named by a 3 letters, which I’m not going to put here because all you’d need to do is google those 3 letters and then you know who we’re talking about, wants to sue twitter to force them to reveal someone’s identity. If that’s not the definition of IRONY I do not know what is.
Some unidentified man wants to force someone to be identified for having maybe identified him. It’s not just ironic; it’s convoluted and just plain weird.
But why was this, such a monumentally stupid idea? Well as only one who has been on the internet ever knows, once something is on the internet it is on the internet. There ain’t no way you can take it all down. And then there is The Anonymous Effect. Tell the internet they can’t do something and make a silly unworkable threat ageist something they like and bam! You get the exact opposite of what you were after.
If the idea was to stop the name being posted on line, it sort of backfired. With at one point it was going 16 times a minute, or it could have been seconds, with Twitter it’s really hard to keep track. What isn’t hard to track though is that it’s now out there. Hell even I know who it is and I didn’t care. I cared the moment I head ‘Twitter’ and ‘sue’ in the same sentence, when it became Ironic.
This doesn’t really have an end, this piece or this story, it will run and run until the man finally cracks, and he will crack, and it all comes spilling out. But before he does, the long battle between privacy and freedom of speech will be well underway. I strangely find myself on the side of freedom of speech, and would be really angry if that freedom got damaged because some ejet who gets paid far too much because he has well coordinated feet can’t keep his dick in his trousers.
