* Posts by mw

2 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jul 2009

The Twitter storm that saved freedom of speech

mw

elegant hack of the legal system

Isn't the point of this that Paul Farrelly has found an elegant hack of the legal system which allows these super-injunctions to be made public knowledge by the simple act of referring to them in parliament? That Carter-Ruck fell into the trap of trying to apply the super-injunction to prevent the Guardian reporting the parliamentary question simply drew attention to the whole thing, but the alternative would have seen the Guardian report the existence of the super-injunction anyway. Hence the secrecy of super-injunctions can be broken if you have a friendly MP who's prepared to mention it's existence in parliament.

The 3G map Ofcom didn't want you to see

mw

you mean something like this ofcom website?

http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/

Admitedly, Google Maps doesn't have anything to worry about from the the genius who designed the user interface, and it won't tell you how good your coverage will be in a specific location, but it does have information about cell tower locations, networks, and so on.