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Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts

Monday, 19 November 2012

That Stupid Woman (again)

It seems that Sally Bercow is one of those women who suffers not only from verbal diarrhoea but also the inability "to put her brain into gear before opening her mouth".  In this case, however, the word "mouth" is not totally appropriate and should perhaps be replaced by "Twitter account" as this is seems to be her problem, she just can't stop twittering!

Not content in having got herself involved in a possible libel action over the naming of Lord McAlpine and even possibly leaving herself open to aggravated damagers as a result of her subsequent conduct, she has now apparently breached a Court Order by tweeting the name of a girl who was subject to  an Anonymity Order under Section 39  of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.

It seems that she can't simply understand that anything she twitters is available world wide and that putting anything on Twitter, or indeed a blog like this, constitutes publication,  just as if it were put on the front page of a major newspaper.

Some mothers do 'ave 'em!

See "Sally Bercow urged to 'turn off Twitter'" in the Telegraph

Friday, 12 November 2010

Councillor arrested over tweet - Why not MPs as well?

The Daily Telegraph reports today (page 18) that a Tory Councillor has been arrested over claims that he had suggested on Twitter that a female journalist, Yasmin Alibaha-Brown should be stoned to death.
He has also been suspended from the Tory Party.

Surely the two Labour MPs who are alleged to have urged and congratulated the "student" demonstrators should suffer a similar fate? Along with the "University" staff who took similar public positions.
All should be suspended with immediate effect - they are all public employees and the public has every right to expect better of people in these positions.

Or is alleged racism a more serious matter than advocating and/or approving of criminal damage and attempted murder?