Tweeter To Be Prosecuted, Twitter Now Censoring? 195
Andy Smith writes "Slashdot has already covered the super-injunctions furore in the UK, with one famous footballer going after an anonymous Twitter user who broke a court order and revealed his extra-marital affair. Now another footballer has asked the attorney general to prosecute a well-known journalist and TV personality, who went against another super-injunction and wrote about this footballer, again on Twitter. Meanwhile, going back to the first footballer, it looks like he's got Twitter running scared, as the site is apparently blocking his name from appearing on the trend list, despite him being one of the most tweeted-about people."
its Ryan Giggs. (Score:1, Informative)
Ryan Giggs, its ryan giggs, its the welshman Ryan Giggs. - Just incase anyone was wondering.
Not the first time they've blocked something from (Score:5, Informative)
trending.
They stopped wikileaks from trending a while back too [google.co.uk]
Re:Slashdot is not UK based (Score:5, Informative)
The journalist is Giles Coren and the footballer is Gareth Barry. So I read on a website.
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/tweeters/user/47583067/ [informatio...tain.co.uk]