> I do have a loathing of those magazines and programmes like Kyle though.
Yes, so do I. I don't even like gossip over the fence, and this is it on a grand scale ...
The problem we have when super-injunctions meets social media is that you can't serve a super-injunction on social media, because social media is individual people. You'd have to tell every single person on that channel (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) that they weren't allowed to mention something and, of course, you'd have to tell them what they weren't allowed to mention - which kind of defeats the point ...
But you have to wonder how these stories get onto Twitter in the first place, since the average person in the street doesn't find out about this stuff. Where's the source?
There's a clear strategy here for newspapers to destroy any kind of privacy laws so they can sell more newspapers. The strategy goes: find out some dirty gossip; leak it onto Twitter; force it to go viral using their network and PR skill; then claim that enough people know about it for them to publish it now; finally, publish the dirty gossip mixed with some sanctimonious tosh about freedom of speech and public interest for good measure ...
> No it's not fair; they should have been born with the sense not to do things they felt would embarass them in the first place
There's a difference between facts and gossip. There's also a difference, even once the facts are established, between what's in the public interest and what isn't. It's established in the Univeral Declaration on Human Rights (and in EU and UK law) that all humans have an essential right to dignity and privacy. This is a good short article on the topic, IMO:
http://www.yourprivac...rRightsToPrivacy.html