If Twitter was to agree to comply with court orders made by English courts within their jurisdiction, then it could set up a sophisticated system to delete any tweet that included the name of a person who was the subject of an order.

I note that a Twitter spokesman told The Guardian that it does remove "illegal tweets and spam." So it has the technology to do the job.

Then again, as I write, I can see consequent problems. People may well catch on that certain celebrities/footballers/MPs had vanished from the net.

Twitter isn't the meejaa, innit!

Asking Twitter to comply with a gagging order is like asking every pub in the country to ensure that all their patrons comply with the gagging order. It's stupid.