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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by ArneBab on Monday September 20, 2021 @06:52AM (#28592320)
Freenet provides both: Secrecy of content and pseudonymity — both are required to enable confidential disclosure to a journalist on the (typically valid) assumption that the opsec of the journalist is far from perfect.
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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by austincheney on Monday September 20, 2021 @06:58AM (#28592365)
The entire goal of journalism is information disclosure, to publish a story. That is not privacy. The goal here is to not reveal the identity of a source.
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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by ArneBab on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:00AM (#28592381)
The goal is to publish a story. Hiding the identity of a source is a way towards that goal.

The journalist does not need privacy or confidentiality to publish. The source does. And without the source, there’s no story.

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