Freedom of Speech

Copyright causes confusion in 3D printing world.

Analysis of recent decision saying the state could compel reporters to reveal their sources. I don't see why this is a big deal. Courts have been imprisoning reporters for failing to testify for decades if not more. It doesn't seem to me like anything has changed.

"The federal Fourth Circuit covers the geographical area where most of the U.S. government’s intelligence, surveillance and top-level military agencies – including the NSA and CIA – are headquartered. The ruling "pretty much guts national security journalism in the states in which it matters," Marcy Wheeler writes."

Somebody needs to explain why that wasn't the case before. Here's a story about a reporter facing jail.

"A Fox News reporter who could be ordered to jail if she does not reveal her sources for a story about the Aurora theater shooting has filed an affidavit pleading with the judge in the case to cancel her subpoena.In the affidavit, filed Tuesday, reporter Jana Winter writes that she has suffered panic attacks and nightmares as a result of the subpoena. She writes that she has received harassing phone calls from supporters of theater shooting suspect James Holmes and that she's been afraid to live in her house. And she writes that she had to abandon reporting on "a high profile national security investigation" and "allegations of serious misconduct by senior officials" because sources will no longer talk to her."

This has been going on for as long as I can remember. Back to the original.

"Over the weekend, some news accounts described Friday’s court decision as bad timing for Attorney General Eric Holder, who has scrambled in recent weeks to soothe anger at the Justice Department’s surveillance of journalists. "The ruling was awkwardly timed for the Obama administration," the New York Times reported. But the ruling wasn’t just "awkwardly timed" – it was revealing, and it underscored just how hostile the Obama White House has become toward freedom of the press."

Become? Like all tyrants, he's always been that way. Remember his attacks on Fox News? He loves the press when they're printing what he wants, which they usually do, but they're finally doing a little more of their job, and he doesn't like it. The good news is, the more he angers the press, the more honest they'll be about him and his policies. Maybe they'll even report on Obama's affair.