Outcry as Australian police search public broadcaster
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#2Seems that other countries are fast following the example the US government set in aggressive enforcement of press censorship against Assange.
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#3Reminds me of the Guradian being intimidated over the Snowden leaks by being forced to drill through their harddrives: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-rele...
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#4Reminds me of this crazy clusterfuck unfolding in San Francisco:
https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-war...
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#5Why are the BBC quoting the BBC's opinion on this? Are the BBC making a political opinion statement about the police in another country?
The BBC have always loved to report about themselves and often literally interview themselves. It's not unusual for them to report about their own report of an interview between themselves and one of their own executives. But this is become really bizarre now.
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#6Seems that other countries are fast following the example the US government set in aggressive enforcement of press censorship against Assange.
NVM Assange, look within our own borders: https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-war... https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-war...
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#7Ah yes, of course something military related. We had this moment in 1962: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_affair
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#8I'm getting a bit sick of journalists acting like they should be above the law. This comes across as though it's an audacious abuse of authority for any law enforcement official to even think about stepping foot into a media companies office. No, you are subject to criminal investigation just like anyone else is.
I'm always amazed how qickly the media closes ranks when one of their own is perceived to be under attack. The outcry is always from other journalists.
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#9Seems that other countries are fast following the example the US government set in aggressive enforcement of press censorship against Assange.
You don't even need to reach for a controversial quasi-journalist. Normal, boring American journalists are targeted, which is a far worse situation.
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#10I'm getting a bit sick of journalists acting like they should be above the law. This comes across as though it's an audacious abuse of authority for any law enforcement official to even think about stepping foot into a media companies office. No, you are subject to criminal investigation just like anyone else is. I'm always amazed how qickly the media closes ranks when one of their own is perceived to be under attack…
I'm pretty amazed that people on this forum are so quick to jump on the side of an authoritarian right-wing government over press freedom.