I’m in the London office today, and just took a photo of this postcard on the wall, thinking it would fit with a blog post at some point. Then it suddenly struck me, today’s main internet news in this part of the world fits it perfectly. 

You can read more about it elsewhere, but in essence, a gagging order was placed on the Guardian last night to stop them reporting the contents of a parliamentary question, going against centuries of precedent on parliamentary priviledge and the freedom of the press to report what our elected representatives are saying. 

A dangerous road to go down, and thankfully the ruling has today been overturned, so hopefully all will be well from now on.

But the problem the original company wanting the injunction now has is that, in gaining the injunction, they’ve blown the story far, far bigger than it ever would have been, thanks to the internet. Obviously the Guardian could say nothing, having been gagged, but blogs all over the web ignored the injunction and got the news out there across the world. The company name became the most used word on Twitter for a while. It’s the sort of publicity money cannot buy, but it’s a fair bet that none of it was good. 

So, internet 1, injunction 0. A victory for individual people with free websites writing as a hobby, against a company with a huge budget. So it ties in perfectly with the message on our wall. No matter your size offline, on the internet, that size means nothing.