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What stood out to me most is the existence of a "media license". Wouldn't letting the government decide who qualifies as media go against the idea of free pres

What stood out to me most is the existence of a "media license". Wouldn't letting the government decide who qualifies as media go against the idea of free press? Just get rid of that nonsense. No more problems.

acadapter 3y ago
It's in the constitution. If you register as a publisher (ansvarig utgivare), a different set of free speech laws are used (freedom of press). This is probably the "license" they're mentioning.
apienx 3y ago
Ironically, Sweden has the world's first Freedom of the Press Act. It's even been designated a "Memory of the World" by UNESCO: https://unesco.se/tryckfrihetsforordningen-utsedd-till-varldsminne-av-unesco/ https://unesco.se/tryckfrihetsforordningen-utsedd-till-varld... What you're asking for will not be easy to enact. In a monarchy, the concept of "natural rights" remains somewhat culturally foreign.
- geon 3y ago
  > In a monarchy, the concept of "natural rights" remains somewhat culturally foreign. How do you figure? The monarch is just a symbolical position. It carries no political power.
yxhuvud 3y ago
> Just get rid of that nonsense. No more problems. What the license in question does is that it makes the publisher potentially liable for publishing stuff that shouldn't be published rather than the journalist for writing it. That license is not the problem.
bertil 3y ago
Hi, I'm a journalist. I’ve found your passwords and social security number. No need to ask how. Do I have the right to sell those to anyone who wants?
- dalke 3y ago
  I don't think you'll get much for my personal number (the equivalent of the US social security number). Anyone, including you, can call the tax office at +46 8 564 851 60 and get it for free. Profiting off a secret password is not intrinsically illegal. The journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding famously made the WikiLeaks password "SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds" public when they included it in a book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assange%27s_War_on_Secrecy#Publication_of_the_password https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assan... They didn't get special permission to sell that manuscript to the publisher. Besides, all of my passwords contain secret information concerning Swedish defense installations, making them illegal for you to publish. /wink

acadapter 3y ago

It's in the constitution. If you register as a publisher (ansvarig utgivare), a different set of free speech laws are used (freedom of press). This is probably the "license" they're mentioning.

apienx 3y ago

Ironically, Sweden has the world's first Freedom of the Press Act. It's even been designated a "Memory of the World" by UNESCO: https://unesco.se/tryckfrihetsforordningen-utsedd-till-varldsminne-av-unesco/ https://unesco.se/tryckfrihetsforordningen-utsedd-till-varld... What you're asking for will not be easy to enact. In a monarchy, the concept of "natural rights" remains somewhat culturally foreign.

geon 3y ago
> In a monarchy, the concept of "natural rights" remains somewhat culturally foreign. How do you figure? The monarch is just a symbolical position. It carries no political power.

yxhuvud 3y ago

> Just get rid of that nonsense. No more problems. What the license in question does is that it makes the publisher potentially liable for publishing stuff that shouldn't be published rather than the journalist for writing it. That license is not the problem.

bertil 3y ago

Hi, I'm a journalist. I’ve found your passwords and social security number. No need to ask how. Do I have the right to sell those to anyone who wants?

dalke 3y ago
I don't think you'll get much for my personal number (the equivalent of the US social security number). Anyone, including you, can call the tax office at +46 8 564 851 60 and get it for free. Profiting off a secret password is not intrinsically illegal. The journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding famously made the WikiLeaks password "SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds" public when they included it in a book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assange%27s_War_on_Secrecy#Publication_of_the_password https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:_Inside_Julian_Assan... They didn't get special permission to sell that manuscript to the publisher. Besides, all of my passwords contain secret information concerning Swedish defense installations, making them illegal for you to publish. /wink