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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by wallace_f on Thursday March 07, 2019 @07:41AM (#19327519)
It's terrifying. Free speech should not be infringed upon.

This is obviously happening more and more. High profile cases like journalists and activists caught up in association with Snowden, like Greenwald, Poitras and Lavabit's founder... Are probably known to most here. But I wonder if most are aware even a journalist covering the dakota pipeline protests was detained by the US government(1).

1-https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/business/media/canadian-j...

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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by FlatSunSociety on Thursday March 07, 2019 @08:33AM (#19327853)
Terrible indeed, I didn't know of this case, thanks for sharing. Regarding the caravan case you can at least try to bury it under international politics/border security. But to detain a journalist that has been covering Dakota pipeline is restricting the freedom of speech for pure economical reasons.
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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by wallace_f on Thursday March 07, 2019 @01:01PM (#19330359)
I think they tried some vague excuse that had something to do with him having travelled to the Middle East in the past.

So if you want to retain your civil rights in America, you either can't cover protests, or can't travel to the Middle East. Or both.

Anyways, who on earth is downvoting my parent comment??

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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by 18pfsmt on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:30AM (#19328237)
I wonder if that might have to do with foreign influence being involved with the protests?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/01...

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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by boomboomsubban on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:05AM (#19328554)
No, it doesn't. Not only was that "influence" so minor to have had basically no impact, the posts were made months after the detention.
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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by viivaux on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:02PM (#19329697)
Pretty ballsy of the WaPo to suggest such a thing, considering their utter lack of interest in the heinous acts carried out there at the time.
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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by dang on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:23PM (#19341813)
If you keep posting flamebait and otherwise breaking the site guidelines, we will ban you. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules from now on. That means posting civilly and substantively, or not at all.
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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by viivaux on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:52PM (#19342046)
That Was a substantive comment, which added to the original.

And it Was cowardly to downvote the original comment, which was documentably factual. It's more than a little prudish to come at me a day later and threaten me with a ban. If you have some kind of personal issue with me, I'd like it explained please.

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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by dang on Friday March 08, 2019 @04:56PM (#19342599)
It's definitely nothing personal. It's just that you're breaking the site guidelines by posting flamebait and calling names (in the sense that the guidelines use that term).

In addition to the guidelines, you might also find these links helpful for getting the original spirit of this site:

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