I’m not defending injunctions, but the idea that celebrities’s only defence against excessive snoopng is to be as normative as possible is just a restatement of the anti privacy slogan, ‘if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear’.
We should all have some right to a private personal life. Hypothetically, if an individual had experience with a reasonable fear that an aggressive tabloid press night use homophobia to ruin their career, they might be inclined to be proactive in regards to injunctions.
A couple of years ago some previously anonymous school teacher became a favourite Ripon of the daily mail just because she transitioned to female over a school holiday. This was a purely personal decision, obviously, but the mail decided it should end her career. Indeed, she ended her life shortly afterwards. The press is not going to self regulate. Whatever regulation they are subject to should be more accessible and transparent, such that the possibility of fines for reporting on private lives leads them to self-restraint.
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