Not afraid, just not sure that those possibly legally responsible for Eurotrib might want the hassle. It's ridiculous if you ask me (I'll post it on my blog as soon as I get 15 minutes free time), but it might turn out to be a (minor?) bother to people. Most probably it won't but who knows.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

Oui's wording gets it right - this is almost certainly voluntary censorship by the British media in not naming or identifying certain individuals. The usual mechanism is a "D Notice" which is a non-statutory adivisory that non-publication is requested. Similar self-censorship was used in 1936 when the Abdication was almost a complete surprise to the majority of the British public but was well trailled in other countries' media. Of course these days it is impossible to keep a secret as this thread shows. At one stage the book "Spycatcher" was techinically banned by a gagging order in this country but was freely available for purchase on the internet.

It is part of the duty of those who publish on the internet to make public those things that officialdom would rather be kept secret. The only restraint should be not to identify those people whose "outing" would lay them open to personal danger. To take the CIA example, while Valerie Plame might not be in personal danger from exposure, another person under cover in say Pakistan might be killed if exposed. There is therefore some degree of self-censorship required of responsible persons which I think we would agree on.  

Oh absolutely, yet the names were published in Greece's highest circulation Sunday paper, which makes this thing hardly a secret worth gagging the press for. As for the Greek EYP names, a commentator over at histologion said all that needs to be said:

Yesterday night I heard Triantafylopoulos (one of the owners of the "Proto Thema" tabloid) claim that the names were divulged to his newspaper by three different sources, of which none came from within EYP. In his usual secretive style he seemed to indicate that he didn't connect the leaks with PASOK, but he didn't hint at any alternative.

He also offered some funny comments on EYP who are, as it seems, a greek-style secret service: they hold annual union gatherings and parties where everybody appears with their proper name, enters through the front door etc. Triantafylopoulos was wondering what the big fuss was about since anybody can just sit outside the Diogenis restaurant under the Acropolis and take photographs of those that enter on the day of the EYP annual party :-P

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake