To be frank libel seems to be a hopelessly outdated legal argument of feuding nobles and constructs of "honor" to allow the strong to silence the weak. It is ut

To be frank libel seems to be a hopelessly outdated legal argument of feuding nobles and constructs of "honor" to allow the strong to silence the weak. It is utterly impossible for it to be remotely consistently enforced even by the bottom of the barrel low standards of prohibition. More cynically it is outright delusional to think that it will ever protect the weak from lies when its main purpose is to protect powerful people like Jimmy Saville from the truth about their crimes. It is a bad tool and should be tossed in the garbage.