Internet disallowing for well-known Australian radio superstar

A leading Australian radio celebrity was Thursday disqualified from blogging and utilizing social media while under five month’s house detention for enlightening the identities of two child sex criminals.

Derryn Hinch Melbourne talkback radio host was punished to five months' home arrest for reaching court orders ruling out the naming of two pedophiles in 2008.

A passionate social media user with 15,400 followers on his @HumanHeadline Twitter stream and a broadly-read blog, the blunt Hinch was excluded from doing interviews or communicating via the Internet during his house detention.

"I consider it's especially crushing for him because he's been mostly silenced," Hinch's radio chief Clark Forbes told listeners after the ruling.

"Yet if he was in imprisoning he likely would be able to write you a letter, acquire on the phone."

Magistrate Charlie Rozencwajg said Hinch had only run away jail time due to sickness, having presently experienced a liver transplant, and informed him that even speaking on the law court steps would be a violation of his punishment.

Rozencwajg also disqualified Hinch from giving instruction to others updating his sites on his behalf, stating he "got the law into his own hands".

Hinch named the child sex offenders during a public gathering and also on his website.

He is an open campaigner on the matter and has earlier been imprisoned and fined for naming a padeophile in the 1980s.