Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster

Re:Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster by woah on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:38AM (#20105502)

Seems that other countries are fast following the example the US government set in aggressive enforcement of press censorship against Assange.

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Re:Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster by jonny_eh on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:48AM (#20105622)

NVM Assange, look within our own borders: https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-war... https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-war...

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Re:Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster by adventured on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:02PM (#20107321)

Implying that one illegal example in San Francisco by local police, means that it is a common procedure in the US that is being applied "within our own borders," is absurd.

A given unit of police can do any given illegal thing, that doesn't make it common or mean that it's going to become common.

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Re:Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster by mdpopescu on Thursday June 06, 2019 @05:18AM (#20112859)

Were they immediately arrested?

If not, that means it's "unofficial" (wink, wink) de-facto policy.

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Re:Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster by happytoexplain on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:59AM (#20105724)

You don't even need to reach for a controversial quasi-journalist. Normal, boring American journalists are targeted, which is a far worse situation.

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