Quintin Jardine's blog

I  care little about Imogen Thomas and her alleged footballer lover, and I care nothing about Sir Fred F*****g Goodwin. I do care about the existence of any law that’s used to prevent any newspaper reporting the truth and I’m alongside those who want to change it. But . . . such laws exist and we live under their protection, until they are repealed: it’s how our society works. When a commercial organisation, specifically Twitter, allows itself to be used to flout the law and courts of any nation in which it operates, then it should be accountable. But it isn’t, and it won’t be until the US government, under whose protection it lives, takes action against it on behalf of those countries whose courts it’s helped to defy.

Could it do so? Sure. For an example, look at this site   http://www.atdhe.net/

Will it do so? Not a chance. We have finally reached the stage at which the internet is more powerful than any government. That’s called Anarchy.

I’ve made my tiny protest though, by deactivating my Twitter account. As of now @skinnercop is no more.