Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest

Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by cabaalis on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:14PM (#16663482)

I'm a developer, it's still illegal for me to use holes found by other developers. He trespassed on private property, his being called a "journalist" doesn't much change that.

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by mattigames on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:27PM (#16663555)

There are many cases where sticking around someone (e.g. a civil activist like MLK) was illegal enough for having a criminal charge over you; but journalist get immunity -to a degree, explicit or implicit- for being so; so yeah I think your analogy here misses the point.

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by djrogers on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:53PM (#16663692)

> but journalist get immunity -to a degree, explicit or implicit- for being so

It’s not clear that this is the case in Canada, and your reference of a clearly American example doesn’t really clear that up.

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by mattigames on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:17PM (#16663824)

Canada does have some laws to protect similar issues related to freedom of press (e.g anonymous sources[0]) and some organizations fighting for it[1].

[0]https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/3kp7n3/canada-passes-law...

[1]https://www.cjfe.org/

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Re:Journalist faces criminal charges over coverage of protest by valuearb on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:17PM (#16664620)

there is no such thing as journalistic immunity. They are private citizens same as you or me. Laws protecting the press apply to us too.

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