Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found security flaw in state site

Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by mdp2021 on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:10PM (#28948610)

> For politicians, winning elections is central. It is the source of all of their power. They know that the way to win elections is to get people on their side to show up and vote. Losing votes from the other side is essentially irrelevant — they weren't going to vote for them anyway. Politicians are fighting apathy, not the opposing party.

This is called "perversion".

> Once you understand this, ...'s behavior makes [it]

an accomplice and an entity of abysmal value.

Back to the elephant in the room: journalism was there to determine facts, reality. Outside narratives, facts exist, sometimes clear. It's like in judicial matters: advocatus dei and advocatus diaboli are there to attain to truth in a dialectic manner, proposed and implemented to exhaust the thinkable reasons involved - never there you meet the lunacy of "serving the client's interest". The disconnection to facts you indicate would be a horrible disease.

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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by munificent on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:04PM (#28951388)

> journalism was there to determine facts, reality.

There are definitely plenty of journalists doing just that, which is why you and I are reading about this.

The problem is that roughly half the US electorate is not tuning in to those journalists, but they still have the vote.

> The disconnection to facts you indicate would be a horrible disease.

It is a horrible disease and the US is suffering mightily for it.

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