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Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group

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Post by basisword »

charliebwrites wrote: post #14

This is why the First Amendment is so important

If you believe Trump wouldn't be doing things like this if America was actually facing direct consequences for its warmongering, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Post by aunty_helen »

tencentshill wrote: post #25
pixl97 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, there was a lot of media censorship during WWII.

So we give up our rights when at war? Why not always be at war? Eastasia has always been at war with us.

Hauntingly, they’re actually calling the ME “west asia” now.

In my copy of animal farm, there’s actually a foreword relevant for this discussion. It goes into Orwells difficulty getting things published around ww2 as there was speech that whilst legal was frowned upon during wartime.

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Post by dennis_jeeves2 »

kibwen wrote: post #59
pixl97 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, there was a lot of media censorship during WWII.

It's entirely common for the government to wipe their ass with the first amendment during wartime. > The objective of wartime censorship was to prevent the exposure of sensitive military information to the enemy. Similar censorship had been practiced by the U.S. Army in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. During World War I, however, the press censorship system was formalized and extended, according to the Ar…

> It's entirely common for the government to wipe their ass with the first amendment during wartime.

Happens even without a war, just saying...

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Post by nutjob2 »

WangComputers wrote: post #32
guzfip wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These foreign agitprop accounts have gotten so ridiculous lol.

[flagged]

I guess you'll change your tune the first time they force you to submit to an inspection of your vagina.

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Post by iamnothere »

hackingonempty wrote: post #54
Maxious wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“[w]hen a nation is at war, many things that might be said in times of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.” Schenck v. United States (1919)

"In 1969, Schenck was largely overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which limited the scope of speech that the government may ban to that directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot)." - Wikipedia

Thank you. It really is disturbing how many people want to take us back to the Wilson era. Civil liberties are a good thing, folks!

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Post by aunty_helen »

t0mas88 wrote: post #60
wat10000 wrote: post #34

And people wonder why I refuse to connect through Dubai.

Indeed. And interestingly those people also believe this myth that Emirates is somehow always super luxurious. Emirates Economy is just as cattle class as all other large airlines, but with a worse safety record and having to go through Dubai. Just don't do it.

Emirates has never had a passenger fatality. What do you mean worse safety?

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

Someone1234 wrote: post #3

> publishing information deemed harmful to state interests Is the charge, which I think kind of speaks for itself. Full on: "You embarrassed us, straight to jail." In most of the world such photos would be deemed of public interest and shared by the media then we'd reflect on if our routing is safe/correct and make proportional changes for safety. Not a big deal, nobody is fired, life moves on. I feel like actions li…

> In most of the world such photos would be deemed of public interest and shared by the media

Perhaps, but increasingly not here in the US, which used to consider itself the leader of the "Free World".

Trump thinks nothing of declaring journalists terrorists and threatening to take away the broadcast licenses of TV stations that are embarrassing him.

It'd be nice if we could say this is just Trump, a bad president gone gaga, but the Republican party supports him, so unfortunately this authoritarian control of the media seems to be becoming normalized.

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