Thursday, April 11, 2019

MATT TAIBBI: Why the Assange Arrest Should Scare Reporters

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/assange-arrest-charges-taibbi-821107/

 ...this is a cataclysmic threat to press freedoms, and the time to act is now. The US government’s arbitrarily gifting itself the right to use fraudulent distortions to imprison anyone in the world who publishes facts about it will chill any attempts to do so in the future, and poses a far greater threat to press freedoms than anything we’ve seen in our lives. Anyone who sits idly by while this happens is signing over the sovereign right of every human being on this planet to hold power to account, and anyone calling themselves a journalist who does anything other than unequivocally oppose this move is confessing that they are a state propagandist. This is an intolerable plunge toward Orwellian dystopia, and is an assault on human dignity itself.
It’s time to shake the earth and refuse to let them cross this line. Enough is enough.
Roar, humans. Roar.

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