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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by luckylion on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:17AM (#20174517)
> Goddamn right journalists should be above the law!

In very select instances, and under certain circumstances. A corrupt journalist is terrible and shouldn't be above the law at all. Granted you could argue that he's not a journalist if he doesn't adhere to journalistic standards, but that just makes it a battle over "is this person a journalist?"

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Re:US efforts to jail Assange for espionage are a grave thre... by LoSboccacc on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:39AM (#20174707)
> "is this person a journalist?"

the proper angle would be "was the presented data believed true at the moment of reporting" - even if this leave the door open for manipulation by omission, it can't really be more stringent than that without becoming dangerous.

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