Wikipedia users name celebrities with gagging orders
Telegraph.co.uk
Steven Swinford • 28 Apr 2011 • The identities of four celebrities who obtained draconian injunctions to hide details of their extra–marital affairs have been disclosed on Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.Their profiles on the website …
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Wikipedia is fighting to comply with the super injunctions protecting a Premier League Footballer and a famous TV actor, as its users continually update the profile of the people on the website. The Telegraph claims that administrators for the site ...
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Superinjunctions lose power as [b]Wikipedia names and shames[/b]
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By ShinyJess on April 28, 2011 Comments (0) The identity of the gentleman with which Big Brother star Imogen Thomas has had an affair is hidden away behind a superinjunction, meaning no UK media outlet is allowed to breathe a word of it. ...
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Is this "super-injunction" thing a British phenomenon?
I'm surprised Jimbo's never sought to have one ordered up for his own dalliances. Maybe that's why he's so interested in moving to England!
I'm surprised Jimbo's never sought to have one ordered up for his own dalliances. Maybe that's why he's so interested in moving to England!
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A spokesman for Wikipedia said that if the allegations were posted repeatedly the pages could be "locked" to limit those who could edit them. He added, that, because Wikipedia was based in the United States, it was not bound by the injunctions.
"The servers are based in the US so Wikipedia is not liable," he said. "People have tried to sue the foundation for libellous content but it's been thrown out. Our material has to be really well referenced or it is chucked out immediately."
"The servers are based in the US so Wikipedia is not liable," he said. "People have tried to sue the foundation for libellous content but it's been thrown out. Our material has to be really well referenced or it is chucked out immediately."
All the articles point towards the history (calling them 'the archives'), saying that it is uncensored, but it looks like the history on the articles have been extensively burnt and salted by Wikipedia's enthusiastic, *willing* Stasi - even with no legal requirement to do so.
I think the need to feel there's some higher kind of order in the world to absolve them of personal responsibility is what draws people like that towards following orders blindly, but I'll never really stop getting disappointed at otherwise intelligent humans doing it repeatedly...
I think the mindset of most people on Wikipedia in particular always seemed very 'geeky', rules-focused, only to happy to fall in line behind arbitrary rules set by others without questioning...
I think the need to feel there's some higher kind of order in the world to absolve them of personal responsibility is what draws people like that towards following orders blindly, but I'll never really stop getting disappointed at otherwise intelligent humans doing it repeatedly...
I think the mindset of most people on Wikipedia in particular always seemed very 'geeky', rules-focused, only to happy to fall in line behind arbitrary rules set by others without questioning...
Wikipedia reveals the super injunctions names
Examiner.com
Editors of Wikipedia have been accused of breaking the super injunctions issued in the UK. The names of various celebrities covered by super injunctions in the UK seem to have been revealed on the user edited site, Wikipedia. In recent months a number …
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Editors of Wikipedia have been accused of breaking the super injunctions issued in the UK. The names of various celebrities covered by super injunctions in the UK seem to have been revealed on the user edited site, Wikipedia. In recent months a number …
Wow, a fellow Examiner.
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This is likely to be something of a long term problem for Wikipedia. Various countries around the world have different sets of privacy laws and if the site can be read in that country then it has to abide by those local laws. Which, when anyone can go in and edit an entry, is something of a problem for them.
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A spokesman for Wikipedia said that if the allegations were posted repeatedly the pages could be "locked" to limit those who could edit them. He added, that, because Wikipedia was based in the United States, it was not bound by the injunctions.
Well may that be, but travel to those countries where those injunctions are issued and one could be arrested for comtempt of court.
The US Government has successfully extradited individuals to the USA from other countries for crimes such as software piracy and hacking. Those individuals commited these crimes in their home country. Can't see why another country couldn't do the same.
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Is this "super-injunction" thing a British phenomenon?
I'm surprised Jimbo's never sought to have one ordered up for his own dalliances. Maybe that's why he's so interested in moving to England!
If A is shagging B, printing details in most cases does nothing to inform the public debate. It simply allows the morality brigade to tut-tut over their morning coffee, whilst getting a hardon over the salacious details. From what I understand in most cases of these injunctions there are 3rd party issues involved (normally that of children) who may be harmed by the printing of 'revelations'.
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The US Government has successfully extradited individuals to the USA from other countries for crimes such as software piracy and hacking. Those individuals commited these crimes in their home country. Can't see why another country couldn't do the same.
Because the US Government has bullied many countries into signing extremely one-sided extradition treaties. For all sorts of offences, you can be extradited from your own country to the US, but there is no way to extradite US citizens to other countries.
The Daily Mail that Jimbo so despises as a source for Wikipedia articles is now publishing extensive tribute to Wales' opinion about super-injunction laws.
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The Daily Mail that Jimbo so despises as a source for Wikipedia articles is now publishing extensive tribute to Wales' opinion about super-injunction laws.
The Daily Mail is such a sleaze bag.
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