The reason the court can make a judgement that gags people not involved is simply because that's what the law says. The law says there is such a thing as name suppression where no one can tell others, and it gets invoked by a judge saying so. That's all there is to it.

The same way you have to pay taxes even though you were never involved in that decision.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Has anybody ever been prosecuted for mentioning a name that's been suppressed?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I mean it depends on what exactly you mean. "Mentioning" as in saying out loud is probably hard to prove.

But something that comes to mind is blogger Cameron Slater that got done for writing a blog breaching name suppression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Slater

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like he got a slap on the wrist for writing in a highly read blog. If you named somebody here nobody would do anything.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 4 months ago

One thing to remember here is that we aren't on some facebook page. I wouldn't risk the existence of this instance by leaving up something that exposes name suppression, and I would appreciate if others also respected that. No matter how small you think the risk is, it's not worth it to know someone's name when you can't do anything about it anyway.