Newspaper The Sunday Herald has named the footballer widely believed to have enforced a privacy ruling known as a super injunction, by users of social media site Twitter.
The Glasgow based publication is the first British print publication run with this and says the injunction "holds no legal force in Scotland, where a separate court order is needed".
On the front page it features an easily identifiable image of a man whose eyes are covered with a black bar with the word "censored" on it.
It comes after Twitter users reacted to a footballer's bid to find out who is putting information about him on the website by posting new messages online.
The footballer is involved in proceedings against ex-Big Brother star Imogen Thomas and The Sun newspaper.
This further raises the scrutiny of gagging orders such as injunctions and super-injunctions which operate as court orders that prevent the media from mentioning the fact that an injunction has been put in place.
The Sunday Herald said it named the sportsman being linked to the injunction on Twitter because of the "madness of privacy laws” for newspapers to be prevented from sharing information which is easily available on the internet.
It reads: "We are not accusing the footballer concerned of any misdeed. Whether the allegations against him are true or not has no relevance to this debate.
"The issue is one of freedom of information and of a growing argument in favour of more restrictive privacy laws."
The Glasgow based publication is the first British print publication run with this and says the injunction "holds no legal force in Scotland, where a separate court order is needed".
On the front page it features an easily identifiable image of a man whose eyes are covered with a black bar with the word "censored" on it.
It comes after Twitter users reacted to a footballer's bid to find out who is putting information about him on the website by posting new messages online.
The footballer is involved in proceedings against ex-Big Brother star Imogen Thomas and The Sun newspaper.
The Sunday Herald said it named the sportsman being linked to the injunction on Twitter because of the "madness of privacy laws” for newspapers to be prevented from sharing information which is easily available on the internet.
It reads: "We are not accusing the footballer concerned of any misdeed. Whether the allegations against him are true or not has no relevance to this debate.
"The issue is one of freedom of information and of a growing argument in favour of more restrictive privacy laws."
