The news that Melbourne defamation lawyer Stuart Gibson is suing Twitter on behalf of Joshua Meggitt for a Marieke Hardy tweet (which didn’t name him) is only the most recent of efforts by the legal industry around the world to take on the San Francisco-based, Delaware-registered company, currently valued at between $3.7 billion and $8 billion.
As Crikey revealed in December, Meggitt sued Hardy after he was wrongly named as the author of a hate blog. The suit was subsequently settled. Today, The Age reported Gibson was seeking to sue Twitter for tweets by Hardy that linked to the offending post.
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