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I'm a bit torn, it is complicated. A government employee potentially illegally doxxed someone by giving their personal information to a journalist. That someo
by pests 3y ago
I'm a bit torn, it is complicated.
A government employee potentially illegally doxxed someone by giving their personal information to a journalist.
That someone wants to find out who it was using the only way they know how - asking the journalist who gave them the information.
Sources usually deserve protection, but if they were breaking the law and causing harm... is it warranted?
Not breaking the law like Snowden for the benefit of all, but to target a specific individual?
- Workaccount2 3y agoIt's not worth charging/fining the reporter solely because of the distrust it will instill in all other confidential sources regardless of the facts surrounding this particular case. Nobody wants to consult a lawyer before talking to a reporter to see if that reporter might be held in contempt. So they simply won't talk to the reporter. The judge might win this one, but society on the whole will lose.
- pests 3y agoSo she must be the sacrifice? Where are these arguments for the betterment of society when all the NIMBYs pop up?