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Seems that other countries are fast following the example the US government set in aggressive enforcement of press censorship against Assange.
by woah 7y ago
Seems that other countries are fast following the example the US government set in aggressive enforcement of press censorship against Assange.
- jonny_eh 7y agoNVM Assange, look within our own borders: https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-warrant-to-monitor-a-journalists-phone-before-raiding-his-apartment/ https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-war... https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-warrant-to-monitor-a-journalists-phone-before-raiding-his-apartment/ https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-war...
- adventured 7y agoImplying that one illegal example in San Francisco by local police, means that it is a common procedure in the US that is being applied "within our own borders," is absurd. A given unit of police can do any given illegal thing, that doesn't make it common or mean that it's going to become common.
- mdpopescu 7y agoWere they immediately arrested? If not, that means it's "unofficial" (wink, wink) de-facto policy.
- happytoexplain 7y agoYou don't even need to reach for a controversial quasi-journalist. Normal, boring American journalists are targeted, which is a far worse situation.