Super Injunctions
Ok, so a Scottish newspaper has printed the picture (not name, although they are obvious) of the footballer who is involved in the Super Injunction against Imogen Thomas and the press announcing who he is...
Now I live in England so I will not be naming the footballer, although if you go on Twitter today you can see who it is alleged to be. However, this is not the only thing that I will be banging on about.
So what is a 'Super Injunction'? Well, the very basic version is that it stops not only the name of someone being leaked to the papers, etc. but also the details involved in the case. Basically, first rule of Super Injunction is: don't talk about Super Injunction.
Does this new celeb craze for them undermine the notion of freedom of press? Does anyone care that yet another footballer has been a naughty boy? Does this affect the general public? Well, kinda yes. How many people look up to the likes of footballers? Will they take this as a way to behave? Or will they be so put off by this sort of behaviour that they will think these people are just stupid t***s?
Fred Goodwin was outed last week from his Super Injunction. This was a good thing as I seem to recall that it was the British tax payer who bailed his lot out. This means that the public have a right to know how he was spending his time on our watch so to speak and it was only right that he was outed.
Of course the easy option is to not cheat on your significant other and if you do, be prepared to face the consequences. Unfortunately, in this age of 24 hour Twitter and Facebook you cannot have complete anonymity. If you are in the public eye for any reason you have to realise that you will not have much privacy and you will have to be careful about what you do and where you go.
No one is perfect, but maybe the way to retain some of your respectability would be to hold your hands up when you make a mistake and not try to hide behind the law. After all, it is only the richest people in society that can afford this sort of Super Injunction and they are the people the general public are most likely to be interested in, but they are not necessarily the people that need the most protection.
Now I live in England so I will not be naming the footballer, although if you go on Twitter today you can see who it is alleged to be. However, this is not the only thing that I will be banging on about.
So what is a 'Super Injunction'? Well, the very basic version is that it stops not only the name of someone being leaked to the papers, etc. but also the details involved in the case. Basically, first rule of Super Injunction is: don't talk about Super Injunction.
Does this new celeb craze for them undermine the notion of freedom of press? Does anyone care that yet another footballer has been a naughty boy? Does this affect the general public? Well, kinda yes. How many people look up to the likes of footballers? Will they take this as a way to behave? Or will they be so put off by this sort of behaviour that they will think these people are just stupid t***s?
Fred Goodwin was outed last week from his Super Injunction. This was a good thing as I seem to recall that it was the British tax payer who bailed his lot out. This means that the public have a right to know how he was spending his time on our watch so to speak and it was only right that he was outed.
Of course the easy option is to not cheat on your significant other and if you do, be prepared to face the consequences. Unfortunately, in this age of 24 hour Twitter and Facebook you cannot have complete anonymity. If you are in the public eye for any reason you have to realise that you will not have much privacy and you will have to be careful about what you do and where you go.
No one is perfect, but maybe the way to retain some of your respectability would be to hold your hands up when you make a mistake and not try to hide behind the law. After all, it is only the richest people in society that can afford this sort of Super Injunction and they are the people the general public are most likely to be interested in, but they are not necessarily the people that need the most protection.
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