A victory for free Tweets

October 13, 2009 3:26 pm by James Mackintosh

The #carterruck and #trafigura channels on Twitter are pretty self-congratulatory after solicitor Carter-Ruck partially backed down in its attempt to gag the press – but few noticed that the original gag remains in place, just with a variant to allow reporting of the parliamentary question about Trafigura.

Here’s a selection of tweets:

LewisMiles Lunchbreak: went to the bank, made a sandwich, twitter toppled the govt, poured myself a cup of tea…#carterruck #trafigura

pragi_uk: Q: How many #CarterRuck lawyers to change a lightbulb? A: None, thanks to #Trafigura the room already glows in the dark

mintonreport: #carterruck #carter-ruck #guardian The media are still gagged on reporting on the Minton report itself.

Helenwrites: Went to University once. And wrote 27,000 words on the Freedom of Speech. So I could take you #CarterRuck if I really tried… @mullies

plaggypig: Glad to see #carterruck defeated by a little indignation.

sjzara: Woo. Twitter does the job. #trafigura

mcgenius It’s a brave (or stupid) artist who’d want to be seen winning The Trafigura Art Prize on 3rd November http://bit.ly/1a0m3u #trafigura

CllrIanGilbert: The tweet is mightier than the writ … #guardian #trafigura #CarterRuck

arusbridger (Alan Rusbridger, Guardian editor): Thanks to Twitter/all tweeters for fantastic support over past 16 hours! Great victory for free speech. #guardian #trafigura #carterRuck

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