Jon Snow guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 February 2010 20.30 GMT The scandal of Britain's libel laws and their facility for libel tourism is well known. So too is our cavalier attitude to freedom of speech. But the idea that a country with one of the worst records for press freedom and human rights could use UK broadcast regulations to challenge legitimate reporting of allegations of cold-blooded killings in a brutal civil war surely takes the UK to a new place.to read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/04/watchdog-channel-4-ofcom-sri-lanka
