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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] I don't know if you're familiar with the debate about privacy laws in the UK, and whether we should have or need them, but this is a very similar issue. Whenever some papparazzo snaps a pic of some celebrity which that celeb generally wishes they wouldn't, the issue resurfaces, but for the most part the debate is fuelled by how it would relate to those in public life, i.e. politicians. The politicos by and large want to have their privacy protected from public scrutiny under the assumption they're entitled to a private life. The contrary argument goes that quite often what they get up to in their private lives reflects greatly upon their moral probity. This was most apparent in the later years of the last Conservative government, when - in the midst of a big family values push - Ministers were either shagging their secretaries, researchers, friends' wives, or being found dead in bondage gear asphyxiated by an orange. So, in the UK attempts to bring laws top protect people's privacy are generally seen as being the first step on a path to limiting free speech and the freedom of the press. It was expected after Diana's death that the press would suffer for the actions of those papparazzi, but in fact nothing changed, and even the guys on the motorbikes got ofgf with little more than a wrist-slapping. And this is really the same thing. Scalia is addressing these people because he is a Justice of the Supreme Court. That makes what he says a matter of public interest. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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