"...it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player".

[Nye Bevan]

A married footballer named on Twitter as having an injunction over an alleged affair with a reality TV star has been identified in Parliament as Ryan Giggs.

Lib Dem MP John Hemming named the player during an urgent Commons question on privacy orders.

Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player.

The High Court has again ruled that the injunction should not be lifted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13503847

So this millionaire soccer player was able to obtain a gag order called a "super-injunction" to prevent the UK media from reporting his alleged affair with a reality TV star. A "super-injunction" not only prevents the UK media from reporting the alleged affair, it also prevents them from reporting the *existence* of the gag order itself. So until now, no UK newspaper has mentioned the name of Ryan Giggs in connection with the alleged affair, but it was reported on Twitter and re-tweeted by thousands of people. Giggs has sued Twitter, but the problem for him is that Twitter is based in California and is protected by the First Amendment, so they will probably simply ignore the lawsuit. In theory, however, the thousands of people in the UK who have re-tweeted his name are in contempt of court and could be imprisoned.

I *love* the First Amendment. The UK needs to get one.