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> What on earth are you on about?

The UK's libel laws scared off journalists who wanted to blow the whistle on Jimmy Savile. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/28/jimmy-savile... https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/savile-story...

Your comment is completely out of line and violates the commenting guidelines. Are you trying to be ironic or something?

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The poster you’re replying to appears to mount a some degree of defense of UK law in response to several comments here, though they also use a disparaging name for one of the prominent law firms. It’s hard to tell just what their point is, except to say “You need to understand more to properly criticize UK law, so keep your mouth shut.”

Which, no, we don’t, and we won’t. The effects of UK libel and slander law have been long discussed and demonstrated, so much so that there is a US federal law whose explicit purpose is to enjoin enforcement of UK libel and slander law in US jurisdictions.

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