Court Finds In Favour Of Mosley

[lupestripe]

For once common sense has prevailed. This court case posed a significant threat to civil liberties and the fact that the court has ruled in favour of Max Mosley protects those liberties for those who dare to live an unconventional lifestyle.

What people do in the privacy of their own houses should be their own business and this verdict has protected us from an increasingly intrusive and nefarious media, one that so often fails to exercise restraint and responsibility.

Mosley wins court case over orgy

Mr Justice Eady said Mosley could expect privacy for consensual "sexual activities (albeit unconventional)" and "...there was no public interest or other justification for the clandestine recording, for the publication of the resulting information and still photographs, or for the placing of the video extracts on the News of the World website - all of this on a massive scale."

Irrespective of Eady not calling this a "landmark" case, it still sets a precedence and proves that civil liberties are still valued by some in this country.

Comments

[alexf0x.livejournal.com]

True there is money to be made in the sex lives of the rich and famous (even if I don't personally care about it).

My only though is would things be different if Mosley *had* be caught performing an illegal sex act, or if the clams that it had really been a SS themed sex orgy were true.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I think that the reason Mosley was caught out was more to do with who is father is than anything else. It's a sad case but mud sticks in the media and, although I know how easy it is to claim spurious rumours as facts, I know how easily it is done. It isn't right but sadly it is reality.

I fear that the tabloids have used his father is to sensationalise the story. I may be wrong but there is no link between BDSM and fascism.

[alexf0x.livejournal.com]

Well yes, the thing about the case has been that 90% of what the media said "was" true, even Mosley *had* to admit that, but the Nazi bit was false.

This was how he was able to take them to court and win, as really the case was won over a libel fact, and not the invasion of privacy.

It may have been seen as sexually deviant behaviour as far as the judge and jury were concerned, but there was no evidence that it was as twisted as the media had been claiming.

It was extra spin to create more sales with a really scandalous story. But don't don't get me wrong even if the story had gone to press without the fabricated SS implications, then it would of still been damaging, but it would not of had the impact. Getting caught in a S&M orgy would get you into the gossip and scandal pages that everybody ignores (save celebrity watchers), an SS themed bondage orgy would get the story elevated towards the front page. That's the difference, and difference with the paparazzi money involved.

As for the links between BDSM and fascism, there is *no* social or political link to Nazi philosophy. However I can see how the domineering look of Nazi, SS and Gestapo uniforms (lots of evil looking, peak caps and leather) has influenced the look and feel of BDSM culture (notably with uniform based play). As a consequences to the untrained it could look like it could imply Nazi culture or philosophy, which we know in reality isn't true.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

It was the Nazi bit that was the main crux initially, largely because of who is father was. However, sadly, BDSM is going to have overtones of Nazism to the ignorant majority because they are quite happy to jump to conclusions and demonise anything they don't understand without even thinking about it. That's life I'm afraid, it's the crux of racism, homophobia and sexism - I don't understand it, therefore it must be bad and we must kill it.

It was won over a libel fact but today he has said that he is going to now sue the NotW over libel. I don't know if this is a good thing as the principle here was privacy and that was ultimately what he won over. We will see I guess.

Regarding the shitrags, to be honest I would rather they focussed on celebrity than politics. Millions of people are too easily influenced by these papers on politics and then go out to vote. That is when their influence becomes truly poisonous. As I elluded to in the second article, the Sun is now blaming Europe for this ruling yet there is no connection whatsoever. That is concerning to me.