UK Court Orders Writ to be Served via Twitter

[HardOCP News]

Britain's High Court ordered its first injunction via Twitter yesterday in an attempt to reach an anonymous Twitter user. I don’t know about you guys but this seems rather odd. I guess it is better than Twitter coughing up his user info though.

"The law tends to be quite cumbersome and slow, so to have a court deliberate on something like Twitter -- so hot, so relevant -- it shows quite impressive engagement. Andre Walker at Griffin Law said the anonymous Tweeter targeted by the writ will get a message from the High Court the next time they open their online account.

 

[HardOCP News]

the next time dude logs in he'll be hit with "YOU'VE BEEN SERVED!!!"

 

[ChairmanMiau]

Let's police the internets!!!!!!!!

 

[EvilWays]

"Writ has been blocked."

 

[Riftsaw]

Since Steve said what I was gonna say this post is I'm making is just worthless

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U JST GT SRV'D!

 

[grizzed]

this is a horrible idea

governments actually using the interwebs for notificaiton would lead to incredible rates of fraud. Just like the 'IRS' notice that is making the rounds now.