Re:Governments are using charges of cybercrime to silence jo...
by Ididntdothis on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:38PM
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It’s a very tricky issue. Investigative journalism plays an important role keeping governments accountable but technically they often do illegal stuff or get information from people who did illegal stuff. Making a law around that will be pretty difficult if you want governments to keep the right to classify things.
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Re:Governments are using charges of cybercrime to silence jo...
by 1_anon_coward on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:20PM
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> if you want governments to keep the right to classify things
I want governments to keep things classified.
Leaks should be automatically declassified: the contents are going to be in the public domain one way or another, whether governments like it or not.
The illegal stuff leakers do is the morally ambiguous part. Everything else is already fine and I think the law should reflect that.