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New Guidelines on Social Media Prosecutions

Following criticism of a number of recent arrests and prosecutions relating to postings on social media sites, the Director of Public Prosecutions  has published new draft guidelines. These confirm that postings that break criminal laws on threats, harassment and breaching court orders should generally be “prosecuted robustly” under the specific legislation for those crimes. When […]

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Think Before You Tweet

As the BBC are pointing out, there has been a lot to celebrate on Twitter recently. However there have also been quite a few instances of tweeters (the French refer to us/them as “twittos”) getting it badly wrong. We should all know that “email is like a postcard”, but sometimes it seems that “Twitter is […]