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Maybe they already did? Seems like the current government have introduced secret courts recently... http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/jun/14/what-are-secret-c

Maybe they already did? Seems like the current government have introduced secret courts recently... http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/jun/14/what-are-secret-courts http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/jun/14/what-are-secret-c... Also the Guardian hasn't stopped printing these stories in the UK or online. They've been staffing up in New York (including Nick Davies who brought down much of Rupert Murdoch's print empire last year and crucially prevented newscorp from buying the rest of bskyb). It's interesting to me that the US has a better low-level legal framework for a free press, but it's not plain sailing at all (i.e.: the nytimes and washington post "asked dad" before looking at wikileaks files; judith miller and now james risen have no shield laws).

ash 13y ago
Maybe they did. But the man who was contacted by UK officials about destroying the data, Alan Rusbridger, didn't say they went to court. He said (in reply to a comment) he doesn't see the need for it: AlanC said: If you meekly give into their demands without insisting that they take you to court then you've as good as admitted that they can do whatever they like as far as the UK press is concerned. ... Alan Rusbridger replied: Play out the scenario for me in which fighting this case in court would have enabled us to do a better job of reporting the Snowden documents. I'm not sure I quite see it... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/19/david-miranda-schedule7-danger-reporters http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/19/david-m...