Libel laws that make it harder to suppress free speech in England and Wales came into effect on 25 April, after the Queen gave the Defamation Bill her seal of approval. Scientists have long argued that the previous English libel law threatened open scientific discourse because it favoured those claiming they had been defamed, and that the costs of such cases could force people to keep quiet in the face of legal threats. See go.nature. com/12bxfm for more.
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机译：女王在给诽谤法案盖章后，于4月25日生效了更加难以压制英格兰和威尔士言论自由的诽谤法。科学家们长期以来一直在争论，以前的英国诽谤法威胁公开的科学话语，因为它偏爱那些声称遭到诽谤的人，而此类案件的费用可能迫使人们在面对法律威胁时保持沉默。参见go.nature。 com / 12bxfm了解更多。
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