Drone Journalist Faces 7 Years in Prison for Filming Dakota Pipeline Protests
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Drone Journalist Faces 7 Years in Prison for Filming Dakota Pipeline Protests
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#2Glad he was found not guilty. Charging someone with a felony for attempting to report on this seems dystopian to me; if the state is so clearly in the hands of large corporations, something needs to change.
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#3Hey does this mean that any automated drone in North Dakota ... say, an Amazon drone... does that mean that Jeff Bezos can then be accused for reckless endangerment and sent to seven years in prison?
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#4There needs to be anti-SLAPP laws enforceable against selective law enforcement agencies.
Re: Drone Journalist Faces 7 Years in Prison for Filming Dakota Pipeline Protests
#5Hey does this mean that any automated drone in North Dakota ... say, an Amazon drone... does that mean that Jeff Bezos can then be accused for reckless endangerment and sent to seven years in prison?
Well the drone doesn't belong to Jeff Bezos the individual but to Amazon the corporation, fines and punishments for breaking the law aren't computed and applied in the same way.
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#6Which number amendment is the one enshrining "Freedom of the press"?
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#7Which number amendment is the one enshrining "Freedom of the press"?
I think it's importance is directly related to its place as it's listed in the Bill of Rights.
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#8Hey does this mean that any automated drone in North Dakota ... say, an Amazon drone... does that mean that Jeff Bezos can then be accused for reckless endangerment and sent to seven years in prison?
Well the drone doesn't belong to Jeff Bezos the individual but to Amazon the corporation, fines and punishments for breaking the law aren't computed and applied in the same way.
Which is an injustice, because corporations are people.
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#9Which number amendment is the one enshrining "Freedom of the press"?
Freedom of the press doesn't exist anymore. It's been subsumed by freedom of speech.