You are still not allowed to read this

[TheBigotBasher]

Carter Ruck has stood down. The Guardian will be able to report on questions in Parliament laid by Paul Farrelly, largely because blogs broke the super injunction.

The Guardian is however still under an injunction.

The Guardian is still forbidden by the terms of the existing injunction, granted by a vacation duty judge, Mr Justice Maddison,
to give further information about the Minton report, or its contents.

It is a good thing Wikileaks exists.

Otherwise, the words Trafigura, Minton Report and Carter Ruck could never be mentioned in a sentence.

And sod the Guardian crediting Twitter. Give credit where it is due, if it had not been for bloggers, in particular the Libertarian blogger Guido Fawkes breaking the injunction, (ironically defending Parliament), as well as many other small blogs (including my own), there would have been nothing to tweet about.

This is a victory for blogs. The dead tree industry is still just dead trees.

[annabanana]

1. Ya just can't keep secrets the way ya used ta.

Ain't it grand.

[rhett o rick]

7. Yes, but dont think the Master dont also recognize the danger to their tyranny.

The internet is a boon to democracy and will be attacked by those that hate democracy. Be vigilant.
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[kenny blankenship]

2. Fascinating if still sketchy at this point. I wonder who are the big important names

behind Trafigura and Carter-Ruck? Clearly some heavy hitters.

[TheBigotBasher]

3. Not sketchy now at all

Read the wikileaks entry. Trafigura and their partners committed obscene acts in the Ivory Coast, poisoning large areas with toxic waste. Had they not have tried to silence reporting of Parliament, this (relatively old) news would never have come out. Now every one knows what they did. They have confirmed the internet Streisand effect.

[kenny blankenship]

4. I did read it

[TheBigotBasher]

5. Fair play.

If Carter Ruck had won on this reporting of Parliament would be subject to the decisions ofgiant corporations. Had they won in the High Court, that decision, could have been followed in the US, as High Court decisions have bearing on US Courts (although not precedent).

[TheBigotBasher]

6. Barclays International Tax Fraud is still banned

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Barclays_Bank_gags_Guardian_over_leaked_memos_detailing_offshore_tax_scam%2C_16_Mar_2009

Until now I have been a supporter of the finance industry - I work with people there regularly and respect many of them, and greatly enjoy the Financial Times and other financial papers. However this has shone a light on something for me, and made me certain that these people belong in jail, and companies like Barclays deserve to be bankrupt. They have robbed everyone of us, every single person who pays tax or who will ever pay tax in this country (and other countries!), through both the bailouts and schemes such as this.

That comment is quite telling.

[slipslidingaway]

8. knr nt

[bananas]

9. wikileaks.com is not resolving.

Not even at OpenDNS: http://www.opendns.com/support/cache/

[TheBigotBasher]

10. Try this

http://www.wikileaks.com/wiki/Ivory_Coast_toxic_dumping_report_behind_secret_Guardian_gag

[T_i_B]

11. No, give Twitter plenty of Credit

#Trafigura and #CarterRuck were the 2 big trending topic on the entire site yesterday. Twitter was a vital part in taking what had been wriiten on the blogs and making it go viral. Twitter was what many bloggers were using to gather info for this story.

I think it's quite reasonable to call this a major victory for Twitter.