The UK has had strong anti-libel laws that had a chilling effect on the media there for decades. We are only now seeing that there have been pedophilia rings a

The UK has had strong anti-libel laws that had a chilling effect on the media there for decades. We are only now seeing that there have been pedophilia rings at the highest levels of the rich and powerful in the UK, which had never been reported on despite apparently it being an open secret. I wouldn't be so quick to say this is a good thing. Gawker is a shitty tabloid but it isn't the first one, there have been plenty of others. Tabloids have been publishing stuff famous people would rather not be published for decades. It's a price of fame and a price of a free press.