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No doubt they'll be raising a glass in San Francisco to a certain professional footballer who cannot - for now at least - be named here.

Image source, Other. View comments. Experian Hitwise. The Bacon judgment referred to above allowed the UK courts to demand that the three websites targeted reveal the true identity of individuals behind anonymous postings that were allegedly defamatory.

If Twitter were presented with such an order, which is increasing likely in the current climate, will it comply? Mind you, it is not obvious that either the courts, or the lawyers representing the celebrities will bother. Details of the Andrew Marr story were revealed on the Guido Fawkes website long before the injunction was dropped Guido, aka Paul Staines is careful, as I understand it, to base his site and his business offshore.

Nor it is not obvious that the courts can be bothered to injunct some websites. However, Twitter is so popular that a test case seems not very far away. Until then, though, a curious situation has emerged. One law has emerged to gag the tabloid press from certain kiss-and-tell stories. Then the basic "who and who? All, then, that tabloids can do is report on the existence of the leaks, but can't print the full stories they were prepared to pay for in the first place.

Twitter emerges as a winner of sorts from this battle — a battle that British tabloids usually win. So, if you want to sell a kiss and tell, it might be legally safer to publish it anonymously on Twitter if you can find a buyer, that is.

And as for the tabloids, if you can't get a story past an injunction, what next? Set up an anonymous site just to get the name of the married shagging celebrity out there Sign in.

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