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>Remember it's illegal to posses these documents. It's different for the media; everything you're learning about this, you're learning from us This is terrifyi
by robinhoodexe 10y ago
>Remember it's illegal to posses these documents. It's different for the media; everything you're learning about this, you're learning from us
This is terrifying. Like, 1984-style terrifying.
- nickff 10y agoMembers of the media routinely make the argument that they are different from the remainder of the public when it comes to free speech and campaign finance issues; we shouldn't be surprised when they take a similar view of access to information.
- killwhitey 10y agoThis sounds more like gross incompetence than anything
- tps5 10y agoWhat's with the knee-jerk reaction where everything is "Orwellian" or "1984-like?" I actually think this kind of hyperbole is damaging because, when something actually is "Orwellian," no one's going to listen because we've all been inured to people throwing this word around like it's nothing. When it comes to incidents like this I'm reminded of Hanlon's Razor more than anything from Orwell: "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."