Press must be transparent about wartime censorship
No, Florida should not have its own CIA
No, Florida should not have its own CIA
Plus: Free Estefany Rodríguez from ICE
An unprecedented censorship infrastructure will obscure the fighting
Also: Judge halts search of records seized from Washington Post reporter
If the Maduro precedent catches on, U.S. reporters could be kidnapped and prosecuted overseas for activities that enjoy legal protection at home.
Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees
Plus: Journalist Mario Guevara has been deported
His prosecution is over, but the implications for journalists are alarming.
Next week, the High Court in London will consider whether Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States to face charges under the Espionage Act for obtaining government secrets from a source and publishing them. Even if you don’t like Assange, or don’t think he’s a journalist, his case poses an existential threat to the First Amendment rights of the journalists you do like.
Whether Julian Assange is a journalist is irrelevant to the threat his prosecution poses to press freedom