{"id":3028,"date":"2024-02-01T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/01\/gowns-wigs-and-spectacle-heres-why-i-took-laurence-fox-to-court-and-why-my-victory-matters-crystal\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:18:37","slug":"gowns-wigs-and-spectacle-heres-why-i-took-laurence-fox-to-court-and-why-my-victory-matters-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/01\/gowns-wigs-and-spectacle-heres-why-i-took-laurence-fox-to-court-and-why-my-victory-matters-crystal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gowns, wigs and spectacle: here\u2019s why I took Laurence Fox to court \u2013 and why my victory matters | Crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have suffered dreadful abuse online since winning my libel action, but the message is clear: defamation has consequences<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday on Sky News, I was asked by Kay Burley if I had any sympathy for Laurence Fox. I nearly said yes. But that night, he was back to tweeting about my cock. What a difference 12 hours can make.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re new to this saga, I\u2019ve just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2024\/jan\/29\/laurence-fox-loses-libel-battle-with-twitter-x-users-he-called-paedophiles\">won a libel battle against Fox<\/a> in the high court. I sued him for calling me a paedophile in October 2020. He retaliated, countersuing me for calling him a racist (apparently Mr Free Speech Absolutist is not so keen on speech that he does not agree with). In a judgment released on Monday (more than three years later), he lost on both counts.<\/p>\n<p>Crystal is a drag performer, DJ and TV host<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/01\/laurence-fox-high-court-online-abuse-libel-action-defamation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have suffered dreadful abuse online since winning my libel action, but the message is clear: defamation has consequences On Tuesday on Sky News, I was asked by Kay Burley if I had any sympathy for Laurence Fox. I nearly said yes. But that night, he was back to tweeting about my cock. What a &#8230; <a title=\"Gowns, wigs and spectacle: here\u2019s why I took Laurence Fox to court \u2013 and why my victory matters | Crystal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/01\/gowns-wigs-and-spectacle-heres-why-i-took-laurence-fox-to-court-and-why-my-victory-matters-crystal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gowns, wigs and spectacle: here\u2019s why I took Laurence Fox to court \u2013 and why my victory matters | Crystal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}