And while the NSFW warning might often have served as pragmatic advice (behind which, admittedly, were ethical norms about workplace behaviour), the later injunctions not to click have a moral force that – just possibly – suggests something counterintuitive: the spread of ethical compunction across the basest, most sexually commodifying and amoral of all human inventions, the internet.
Padraig Reidy, editor of the Little Atoms website and a commentator on Irish media, condemned the use of injunctions that applied to the Irish parliament.
Media: Leaks and half-truths Leaks, injunctions, half-truths and conflicting accounts characterised the media's coverage of the cash for honours affair.
"In practice, we could not go right up to the brink," he told her. "I am much concerned that the NUR and Aslef [the rail unions]which are so reducing the transport of coal and coke to the power stations are being carried out at very little cost to the unions, and at no cost to the individuals taking this action," said Tebbit urging legal injunctions be taken out against them.
Corporations have invoked anti-stalking legislation, supposed to protect women, to get injunctions against lawful protests.
It has also raised questions over Lord Goldsmith's own double-hatted role as government minister and the country's independent chief legal officer with a duty to act in the public interest.In seeking the injunctions, Lord Goldsmith insisted he was wearing the latter hat.
Without a large portfolio of patents to trade beforehand, semiconductor firms developing incrementally improved products (next-generation microprocessors and memory chips, for instance) would run into litigation and injunctions at every turn.Pursuing patents aggressively for cross-licensing agreements has little to do with encouraging innovation, though.
Even more important, it must put an end to the non-stop burgeoning of Jewish settlements.Mr Bush, if he is really now exchanging his brass hat for a peacemaking boater, must insist that Mr Sharon obey the road map's injunctions both on normalisation and on a settlement freeze.
Thuggery, as usual The law v the state The distance between them The high price of Nigeria's oil ReprintsSuch injunctions notwithstanding, the local media have retained the cloying adulation of his father's day, simply substituting the name Bashar for Hafez.
If tabloids really believe the exposure of sexual hypocrisy is their moral mission, how come they also report on the sex lives of unabashed bed-hoppers?Newspapers denounce privacy injunctions as an elitist tool open only to the wealthy.
This defies traditional injunctions in Islamic law against indiscriminate killing.
