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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SecretlyPosted:
SovietRussiaAmp_FrogSovietRussiaKex Go away SOPA
I thought SOPA already went away? Is it still in the court system? :|
Nah people just kind of forgot about them but they are still there! They've been around for a long time I think and probably will be...
That sucks.
I thought it was gone too.
It will never fly. I don't think all of those old congressmen even now how many people use the internet :( Sometime I wonder if they even know what the internet is.
Lol ikr? Just stupid
FrogPosted:
SovietRussia It will never fly. I don't think all of those old congressmen even now how many people use the internet :( Sometime I wonder if they even know what the internet is.
True... they only hate on it cos they don't live on it like so many people worldwide! Including me xD
SovietRussiaPosted:
Amp_FrogSovietRussiaKex Go away SOPA
I thought SOPA already went away? Is it still in the court system? :|
Nah people just kind of forgot about them but they are still there! They've been around for a long time I think and probably will be...
That sucks.
I thought it was gone too.
It will never fly. I don't think all of those old congressmen even now how many people use the internet :( Sometime I wonder if they even know what the internet is.
MoanPosted:
FrogSovietRussiaKex Go away SOPA
I thought SOPA already went away? Is it still in the court system? :|
Nah people just kind of forgot about them but they are still there! They've been around for a long time I think and probably will be...
That sucks.
I thought it was gone too.
FrogPosted:
SovietRussiaKex Go away SOPA
I thought SOPA already went away? Is it still in the court system? :|
Nah people just kind of forgot about them but they are still there! They've been around for a long time I think and probably will be...
SovietRussiaPosted:
Kex Go away SOPA
I thought SOPA already went away? Is it still in the court system? :|
SovietRussiaPosted:
CartmanisPhat They really don't understand that these bills will never be passed,do they...
They are a bunch of 65 year old politcians that have never used the internet.
FrogPosted:
Flags Everything about SOPA is **** and annoying.
Reporters don't need to be arrested.
Yeah I hate them so much!
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