“These state AGs are directly responding to Musk’s pleas - helping him punish critics.”
The rush to defend #Musk against the org., a newly anointed enemy of the right, underscores Musk’s rising profile among Rs as a free-speech crusader.
Is it worth it to write this one piece on Elon/X if it means that you’ll be stuck in a M$ legal battle? Most newsrooms can't pay legal fees to fight Musk, esp. now that ST AGs are stepping in.
Seven police and sheriff's officers in Kansas on Friday raided the Marion County Record newspaper and its publisher’s house, raising concerns over freedom of the press in the United States.
Every one of the contributing writers to The Uncaged Voice — Stories by Writers in Exile has escaped arrest and torture in countries where #FreedomOfThePress and expression is more aspirational than realized.
The prosecution of Julian Assange Assange is a serious violation of the First Amendment. A bipartisan group of members of Congress have now written a letter opposing prosecution.
The article was issued by the BDS movement in May 2021 during the brutal 11 day aerial bombardment of Gaza, and it continues to be relevant.
I still can’t stomach the fact that 🇮🇱 destroyed an 11 story building, housing the headquarters of 2 media organisations, as well as 60 residential apartments, and the international community simply turned a blind eye. #Palestine#FreePalestine#JournalismIsNotACrime#FreedomOfThePress
India, Pakistan attempted to interfere in Canada's elections: CSIS
In the case of the 2019 election, CSIS said the Canadian government conducted what it called a "threat reduction measure" ahead of the vote, meant to "reduce the foreign interference threat posed by the Government of Pakistan."
"The situation was monitored and assessed to have effectively reduced the threat of interference," CSIS wrote.
Another step is severely beefed-up policing of political content. Although I'm critical of its use, #AI could, in this case, be used to pre-screen all #SM content. "Problematic" contents and accounts (tbd) would be evaluated by a likewise beefed-up #CyberPolice force, to be either forwarded to the prosecution or to the #CyberWarfare command/ #CyberIntelligence agents or discarded.
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— ‘The conversation began with the words, ‘We understand you know about the prosecutor.’”
Megiddo said it was “explained that if I published the story I would suffer the consequences and get to know the interrogation rooms of the Israeli security authorities from the inside”.
“In the end, it was made clear to me that even sharing the information ‘with my friends abroad’, referring to foreign media outlets, would lead to the same results.”’
Haaretz had part of the story on Israel’s ‘war’ on the ICC two years ago, but the journalist was threatened by security services. Now they’ve published another, redactions included.
— ‘Amid growing concern over Israel’s censorship regime, enforced by the military censor’s office and by gag orders issued by the courts, Haaretz published an article on Wednesday with blacked out words and sentences to demonstrate the scale of redactions.’