Sunday May 29, 2011
Rotten Borough:
Council Spends Taxpayer's Money Suing Twitter
A UK local authority has brought legal action in the US against Twitter in a quest to unmask a blogger.
Mr Monkey's blog ridiculed members of South Tyneside Council and they have used taxpayer's money to discover his true identity.
Mark Stephens, a leading media lawyer who has represented WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange after the US government sought to obtain his Twitter account details, said: “I think it is inappropriate for a local authority to spend money on this kind of exercise. Local authorities cannot sue for libel and, if individual councillors have been defamed, they should take proceedings at their own cost.”
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