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Commented on Wanker
You're on page one of this: http://www.google.com/search?q=wanker but not showing up under Fred Goodwin. Maybe if you'd put his name in the title text :->...
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martin.von.weissenberg commented on
Wanker
Hah! The self-referencing super-injunction is apparently causing a totally normal Streisand effect, so no problems there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect...
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brucecohenpdx commented on
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Calling him a wanker sounds appropriate to me, but I suggest that calling him a "bankster" would work also. And it would also be easier to prove if it turns out he doesn't have hair on his palms....
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Charlie Stross commented on
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You misread the ruling about the anti-gay Christian couple. They went to court to try and obtain a prior ruling that their religious bigotry would be given priority over the needs of any particular child during adoption hearings. At which point the judges sent them away with a flea in their ear. (The first principle of adoption proceedings in the UK seems to be that the needs of the child come first.)...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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VERY FORTUNATELY, it would seem, Parliamentary Privilege overrides all the greedy lawywers' and corrupt politicians' and courts' attempts to suppress free speech. And, once it is in "Hansard" - that's it. You say "I'm quoting Hansard" and no-one AT ALL can stop you. Game over. There has been another case of this recently, where secret courts in the UK have attempted to gag comment, and the rights of suffering individuals. But, an MP has just lost his rag, quite correctly, and invoked PP. For more details, see: Here and Here as well .......
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Charlie Stross commented on
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It would be very interesting if a cross-party group of MPs would, as an interim measure pending the review of the English libel law, agree to raise the details of every superinjunction filed in an English or Welsh court with the Prime Minister during Prime Minister's Question Time in order to ask his opinion of the case (or something similar during some similarly inconvenient Q&A session in the Commons). If they did so, it'd kill the practice of issuing superinjunctions stone dead on the spot (by simultaneously breaking them and, via the Streisand effect, drawing attention to whatever they were...
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