Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest

Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by stretchwithme on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:52PM (#16663335)

I don't see journalists as some special class of citizen with special rights. They use the same free speech rights that we all have. They just happen to speak for a living.

And, last time I checked, I don't get to violate the law just because I'm speaking.

If the law can be disregarded because of pursuing a greater good, that should apply to everybody that can demonstrate that's what they are doing. Not just people who are doing it as a career.

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by closeparen on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:00AM (#16664789)

So when the police order a protest crowd to disperse, whatever happens next should go unobsevred and unreported?

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by stretchwithme on Saturday March 24, 2018 @03:13PM (#16668301)

Are you suggesting that police can't enforce property rights without a journalist present?

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by closeparen on Saturday March 24, 2018 @03:30PM (#16668399)

I’m suggesting that a society where media can’t document protests is unambiguously totalitarian.

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by stretchwithme on Monday March 26, 2018 @04:46PM (#16682442)

And that is certainly not what I am saying. Just don't violate the rights of other people when you do it.

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