SOPA author wants to arrest journalists over leaks
The only problem is that the Justice Department really can't bring “the full force of the law” against leakers, since the law itself doesn't actually let them do that. No worries – the House Judiciary Committee will fix that, according to Wisconsin Representative James Sensenbrenner.
The committee, Sensenbrenner says, is looking at revamping the Espionage Act to allow the prosecution of journalists who leak state secrets. “We've got the Constitutional issue about the First Amendment,” Sensenbrenner said, adding that “there has to be a balance.” In other words, freedom of the press is fine, so long as it doesn't get in the government's way.
Obviously, journalists (especially us poor tech journalists) are a bit worried about the whole deal: the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press says that there is “no need for a new law, and certainly not [one] that was rushed through Congress without careful consideration.” But isn't that how most laws involving technology (and anything, really) are passed?
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Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/sopa-author-wants-to-arrest-journalists-over-leaks
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-Meow-Posted:
NuttyLobbys This guy is obviously a grumpy old man who's computer broke so he's trying to take it out on everybody else LOL
true that
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KexPermanent I thought all this SOPA stuff was gone obviously i was wrong
Same, they never give up -_-
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MawderzPosted:
Permanent I thought all this SOPA stuff was gone obviously i was wrong
Same, they never give up -_-
WamBamThankYouMamPosted:
This guy is obviously a grumpy old man who's computer broke so he's trying to take it out on everybody else LOL
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