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this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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Freedom of the Press still exist
Exhibit A: The journalist that just exposed the government fucked up on OPSEC, and their attempt to shield their communications from official records as mandated by law, via the use of Signal
Not completely fascist, yet.
Then one day, out of nowhere, you'll hear a bunch of helicopters hovering, sirens wailing, your browser says "Unable to connect", calls get dropped, SMS says "undeliverable", phone says "Emergency Only" instead of the carrier name. Then you'll go to the grocerry store and on the way there, you see a bunch of soldiers with a roadblock thing and... it's a checkpoint...
...aaand enjoy! This is the Bad Place (now the actual Bad Place)
The auto-coup will not be televised (not for those within the regime anyways.
lol. Gotta remember freedom means dollars and press means buying politicians.
Not to mention the many actual journalists murdered by empire. There have been hundreds in palestine alone... Plus prisoners like chelsea manning, etc.
Palestine is under Israeli occupation, and as we all know, Israel doesn't care about human rights.
Publishing the documents weren't the crime, the crime was obtaining it illegally.
Similarly, Edward Snowden obtained it illegally, but Glenn Greenwald got it legally from Snowden who has already already obtained the documents. So that's why Snowden has a criminal case, while the journalist Greenwald never got in trouble for it.
This is not to say that I agree with their prosecutions, I do not. It's just that, legally, that's what's not currently protected by the First Amendment (although it really should be protected).
In this case, Jeffrey Goldberg obtained it legally via someone else's fuck up, that's why he didn't get in trouble (yet, but since this administration does not obey laws... we'll see if anything happens).
Greenwald and Goldberd would've never been able to publish it if this was Russia or China. (Although, it seems like the US is heading in that direction now)