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...outside media would lead you to think that we are not hiring,” Singer said. “That’s not the case. We’re dong fewer searches this year, but we are doing searches...
...years in prison. This provision seems to be linked to the incident on Oniani's yacht; under the new statute, the men would have faced charges just for showing up for the meeting. According to local law-enforcement officials who were quoted in the Russia media, the purpose of the gathering was to discuss Oniani's turf war with Aslan Usoyan, leader of a rival clan in Moscow. Weeks later, the reputed godfather of the Russian mafia, 69-year-old Vladislav Ivankov, was shot in the stomach in northern Moscow by a sniper who fired across eight lanes of traffic...
...Guardian hoping to get into court today to challenge ban by #carter-ruck on reporting parliament. Watch this space," he posted. He informed the Twitterverse that a court hearing was set for the afternoon. Then came two jubilant tweets: "Victory! #CarterRuck caves-in. No #Guardian court hearing. Media can now report Paul Farrelly's PQ about #Trafigura. More soon on Guardian." And "Thanks to Twitter/all tweeters for fantastic support over past 16 hours! Great victory for free speech. #guardian #trafigura #carterRuck...
...victory for Twitter? Not entirely, says Stephen Shotnes, a media-law specialist with the London law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton. "It's been enshrined in our law for 300 years that there's freedom of reporting of parliamentary proceedings. I would like to think that what would have happened is that the Guardian would have trotted off to court today and the injunction would have been lifted anyway. The likely impact of Twitter was to speed up that process," he says. (Read "Brought to You by Twitter...
...That's a question to trouble legislators - and people with secrets to hide - everywhere. But there's one clear lesson from the strange case of Twitter and the Guardian vs. Trafigura and Carter-Ruck. Trying to suppress information in the age of social media is like trying to put out a forest fire with a garden hose...