Proposed Secrecy Laws Would Re-Cast Journalism As Spying

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  • Proposed Secrecy Laws - The Guardian

    Simply put, the government wants to make it illegal for journalists to protect their sources.

    This is the latest move towards a British fascist state, where ministers and government become immune to investigative reporting and transparency, holding politicians to account and whistleblowing when these things are made criminal offences.

    We are heading towards a state where journalists can be made into political prisoners for revealing the truth.

    Democracy itself is in danger.

  • Well if they are using hacking to gain information for stories then they are spying.

    And what if they're not hacking..? Journalism is a legitimate profession, you know.

    Why is it that whenever your precious Tories come up with anything fascist (and there is plenty of it) the usual suspects on this forum rush to defend them with the most spurious whataboutery.

    These laws do not necessarily pertain to information obtained by criminal measures.... they pertain to ANY form of information that might reveal activity by the government that is.......... at the very least, in the public interest, and could reveal criminality BY them.

    Or is it that you don't want crime by politicians you favour to come to light...? As long as the crimes are committed by Johnson or people loyal to him, that makes it alright...? Anybody who reveals such activity should be criminalised and imprisoned...?

    We fought two world wars to prevent that sort of thing coming here. Now the people you favour are bringing it here by stealth.

  • Well when I see stories about who said what to who in text messages or emails or whatever it does raise the question in my mind how do the so called journalists obtain this information?

    Lets not forget they were caught out before a few token scapegoats got prosecuted and the "news of the world" was very publicly shut down but essentially just rebranded as the "Sun on Sunday" or whatever, the tory government at the time a certain David Cameron in light of the Leveson inquiry which he kind of dismissed off hand and did nothing didn't want to upset his buddies I expect.

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