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Re:ICE Is Trying to Force BuzzFeed News to Divulge Its Sources by dvt on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:24PM (#25317964)
This is standard operating procedure and happens all the time, especially at the local level. 99.9% the subpoenas fall through, but it's a low-risk, high-reward legal strategy.
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Re:ICE Is Trying to Force BuzzFeed News to Divulge Its Sources by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:38PM (#25318091)
Then that is a bug that needs to be fixed.
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Re:ICE Is Trying to Force BuzzFeed News to Divulge Its Sources by dvt on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:44PM (#25318151)
Not really, because there might be some cases where compelling a journalist to reveal their sources is the right thing to do. Coming up with examples is trivial: child abuse, war crimes, etc. Of course, this should be extremely rare (which it already is). The freedom of the press, much like the freedom of speech (and religion, for that matter), is not -- Constitutionally speaking -- absolute.
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Re:ICE Is Trying to Force BuzzFeed News to Divulge Its Sources by 8note on Saturday December 05, 2020 @05:16PM (#25318931)
I'm not clear how those require revealing sources?

If a source reports a war crime, people should be going after the war criminal, not the person that called them out

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Re:ICE Is Trying to Force BuzzFeed News to Divulge Its Sources by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:57PM (#25318268)
No, the bug is a government agency knowingly trying to work around legal process.
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