New Zealand courts banned naming Grace Millane’s accused killer. Google just emailed it out

["DAVID FARBER" <dfarber () me com>]

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> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
> Date: December 13, 2018 at 3:36:55 PM GMT+9
> To: Interesting Stuff list <is () iconia com>
> Subject: IS: New Zealand courts banned naming Grace Millane’s accused killer. Google just emailed it out
>
> That one of the world’s biggest companies rides roughshod over a court order tells you all you need to know about the 
> giants of Silicon Valley
> EXCERPT:
> Imagine if a media company told you the name of the man accused of killing Grace Millane. Imagine if, in defiance of 
> a very clear court ruling of interim name suppression, that company told you his name in an email – spelling it out, 
> even, in the subject header.
>
> Unthinkable? That’s exactly what happened in the early hours of Tuesday.
>
> The media company wasn’t (New Zealand’s) the Herald or Stuff. It wasn’t TVNZ or Newshub or RNZ. New Zealand media 
> outlets, from the hobbyist bloggers to the biggest broadcasters, respected the proscription on naming the accused. Of 
> course they did: they understand consequences for breaching such an order, and in fact spend significant time and 
> resource policing their social media channels to ensure their audience doesn’t breach suppression either.
>
> Not just because the courts would take action against them for doing so. They understand, too, that it would be 
> morally odious to do so: it could risk damaging the course of justice in an appalling murder that has left a family 
> distraught and sent waves of grief and upset through the country.
>
> The company that paid precisely zero heed to all that is a media and technology corporation from Silicon Valley. A 
> global colossus against which all of New Zealand’s media companies combined amount to a dim pixel. The company is 
> Google. Shortly after midnight on Tuesday this week, it delivered to everyone signed up to its “what’s trending in 
> New Zealand” email the name of the 26-year-old accused of the most headlined crime in this country in 2018...
> [...]
> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/13/new-zealand-courts-banned-naming-grace-millanes-accused-killer-google-just-emailed-it-out
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