It Pays to Think When You Tweet
There is a story about how a Tory councillor, suggested something not very nice should happen to a journalist.
I’m afraid that you generally don’t make jokes about capital punshment, unless they are positive. For instance, if say someone was exonerated by further evidence like DNA and released, then to make jokes about the legal system is probably OK.
If the councillor had thought, he could have said something quite funny or constructive, that wasn’t offensive. He could have said that he disagreed with Ms. Brown and wasn’t it Tony Blair who took us into Iraq!
C was a barrister and she said that the most telling statement in Court was often nothing with an appropriate look!
The trouble with Twitter is it’s very much in the shoot first, ask questions afterwards camp.
We’ve already got the Cairns case, where Chris Cairns is suing Lalit Modi for libel in the English Courts.
There will be many more.
The Anonymous Widower 
I have to say I really fail to see the point of both Twitter and Facebook. My daughters put me on facebook some years ago, and I think I am still on it, but I dont use it. The last time I went into it there were a lot of people wanting to be my friend who I had never heard of, didnt even know them in cyberspace.
Comment by liz | November 12, 2010 |