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So much for freedom of speech in the West: Journalists are especially vulnerable right now, Your Honor, and they become more so when the FBI feels comfortable making false claims about them, Brown wrote: Deny being a spokesperson for Anonymous hundreds of times, and you’re still a spokesperson for Anonymous. Deny being a journalist once or twice, and you’re not a journalist. What conclusion can one draw from this sort of reasoning other than that you are whatever the FBI finds it convenient for you to be at any given moment. This is not the “rule of law”, Your Honor, it is the “rule of law enforcement”, and it is very dangerous. Brown founded Project PM, a website intended to collate publicly-leaked information for use by journalists and activists. Among the secrets exposed were collaborative efforts between the government and private contractors to monitor social networks, and to develop online surveillance systems. boingboing.net/2015/01/22/barrettbrown.html
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:50:40 +0000

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