“The demand for secrecy raised the unnerving prospect that prosecutors could quietly investigate anyone who posts comments online, while the person making those comments is unaware of and unable to respond to the risk”

“Craigslist represents a huge community in each of the cities it serves, and members of that community know a lot about what’s going on. It makes sense to add “news” to the Craigslist community…”

“But is this micromanagement of a very small percentage of the vast audiences of organisations like the BBC the best use of time and money?”

It is common now for newspapers to receive warnings or injunctions forbidding publication of material before anything has appeared.