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So it was Ryan Giggs all along! 3131 Responses
Last post: 1 year, 12 months ago | Thread started: May 23, 11, 11:07 a.m.
- Jimbo82
It's official.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-135…
The whole thing would have blown over had he not made such a fuss and gone to Twitter with his lawyers, what an ass.
He's still an absolute legend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rya…To Ryan
- May 23, 11, 11:07 a.m. – Permalink
- Dodecahedron
That beer looks flat.
- Dog-earMay 23, 11, 11:11 a.m. – Permalink
- PonyBoy
"Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player."
... can someone explain this?... I'm not from the UK - is there a privacy law of sorts stating if you outed someone online that you would go to jail?
- Dog-earMay 23, 11, 11:13 a.m. – Permalink
- Jimbo82
Footballer has affair with ex Big Brother contestant
Footballer breaks it off with ex Big Brother contestant
Ex Big Brother contestant wants to sell her story to the papers
Footballer doesn't want ex Big Brother contestant revealing all
Footballer takes ex Big Brother contestant to court to keep her quiet
Footballer gains injunction stopping his name being revealed in the media
Ex Big Brother contestant mopes around in front of the cameras about how badly she's been treated
Things start getting serious
Twitter user posts name of footballer plus others protected by similar injunctions
Other Twitter users start posting his name
Scottish Newspaper prints cover with his face on
More Twitter users post his name
All hell breaks loose
MP says his name in Parliament under special privileges
BBC names him
Means it's safe for me to make this thread
QBN will probably pussy out and delete it anyway
Like what happened with Burt Bang
- Dog-earMay 23, 11, 11:17 a.m. – Permalink
- Horp
Thank fuck this is all over. Maybe now the British news meeja can get on with reporting some actual news rather than reporting a report that there's "a report that can't be published which involves a footballer who can't be named doing something we can't tell you, and isn't it interesting that we can't tell you who, or what, or why, or where or when.. now here's Sally with the sports round up".
- Dog-earMay 23, 11, 11:53 a.m. – Permalink
- kalkal
The guy in the building (Parliament) outed his name because Ryan Giggs was attempting to sue the said Twitter user, despite that person not being a member of the press which these super injunctions are aimed at.
If he hadn't simply brought out the name, the said user would have been found and sued in secret.
- Dog-earMay 23, 11, 12:33 p.m. – Permalink
- Dodecahedron
I am of the opinion these sort of high profile privacy cases are intentionally trying to shake up the laws and publicise legal issues related to social media.
- Dog-earMay 23, 11, 12:41 p.m. – Permalink
- ThePublics
- Dog-earMay 23, 11, 12:58 p.m. – Permalink
