Although Zlochevsky had no reputation in the UK to defend, and his claim should have been inadmissible under the revised 2013 law on defamation, it would still prove expensive to fight. The Frontline Club is a charity and, although it is committed to free speech as part of its mission, it cannot afford to get into protracted legal battles with multimillionaires. The club would have won, but that victory would have been worse than Pyrrhic; long before legal vindication arrived, the club would have run out of money and been forced to shut down. The screening was canceled and, as it turned out,
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