Cease and Desist Delivered via Twitter

Submitted by threew on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 6:28am.
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A British blogger attempting to unmask an impostor gets the English High Court to deliver an injunction via Twitter DM.

Article via Yahoo News

So... now that we have "virtual courts," can "virtual prisons" be far behind?

Submitted by jeteye on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 12:37pm.

And can we serve virtual time?

Submitted by NY2TX on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 12:52pm.

Only if you "just" virtually did the crime.

Submitted by johnlogic on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 1:04am.

Virtual time? Isn't that what ankle bracelet monitors give us? "House arrest"... what a horrible joke...

By the way, I'd love to get some statistics on the number of times that convicts have cut those things off and fled--or worse.

- John