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A comment on Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press freedom alarms. Parent comment

Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by lostlogin on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:52PM (#13093307)
So that the rest of us can stay informed and sources can be protected. The tricky hit is regulating who is a journalist - bloggers here in NZ are running into this.
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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by mzw_mzw on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:54PM (#13093322)
But do you trust the same governments hassling journalists at the border and rooting through their electronic data to decide who is, and is not, a journalist?
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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by lostlogin on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:14PM (#13093405)
That's pretty much exactly what I was getting at - the journalists police the state, but the state polices the journalists.
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Re:Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press... by metafunctor on Friday December 02, 2016 @07:40PM (#13093523)
What makes you think you can trust the journalists to keep you correctly informed?
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