IdleRich
IdleRich
This story has everything - issues of censorship, kinky sex, nazism and the Mosley family name and Formula 1 (but that's boring so forget about that bit). As I understand it the News of the World got wind of Mosley's s & m pecadilloes and paid one of his companions to film him at it. Much to their delight they discovered that there were elements that arguably related to nazism which obviously made the whole story that bit more salacious and, wary of the fact that in similar situations when they had offered a right of reply to the victim of the sting they had had injunctions slapped on the proposed article, they decided to skip that inconvenient stage and go straight ahead with "Sick Nazi Sex" headlines.
When the story broke Mosley faced a no-confidence vote from the F1 world which he survived. He then decided to go after the news of the screws for damages arguing that it wasn't any of their business what he got up to - and he wasn't doing any of that nazi stuff anyway.
So, I guess the questions are - should a paper be able to film someone having sex just because they are in the public eye? If they do have kinky sex should that affect their competence in other areas? Does it make any difference if there was nazism involved in that sex? Even though it's probably a bit horrible to film someone having sex do we really want people to be able to go after newspapers that do it in court and what further consequences will it have if he wins? And, most importantly, why did he want to be called Timothy Barnes?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/08/newsoftheworld.privacy
When the story broke Mosley faced a no-confidence vote from the F1 world which he survived. He then decided to go after the news of the screws for damages arguing that it wasn't any of their business what he got up to - and he wasn't doing any of that nazi stuff anyway.
So, I guess the questions are - should a paper be able to film someone having sex just because they are in the public eye? If they do have kinky sex should that affect their competence in other areas? Does it make any difference if there was nazism involved in that sex? Even though it's probably a bit horrible to film someone having sex do we really want people to be able to go after newspapers that do it in court and what further consequences will it have if he wins? And, most importantly, why did he want to be called Timothy Barnes?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/08/newsoftheworld.privacy