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This is VERY alarming.
Cops and prosecutors have dreamed up plenty of convoluted theories to criminalize journalism, but the NYPD charging a reporter with a hate crime for documenting news has to be one of the most outrageous yet.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-nypd-sam-seligson-brooklyn-museum-eea8ee12248d38d856fe5cabcac7a0d1
Incarcerating the internet: Social media bans censor journalists in prison
Read this important op-ed by Jeremy Busby, a writer and activist incarcerated in Texas.
Fortunately, Israel reversed course on its censorship of the AP this week.
But the ordeal should be a wake-up call for U.S. officials who keep empowering future administrations to punish the press and chill investigative journalism. https://thehill.com/opinion/4683332-israels-censorship-of-the-ap-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-the-us/
“No one involved in this shift towards encrypted NYPD communications has ever bothered to recognize the cognitive dissonance that says protecting private people’s communications is a net loss for society while protecting cop communications is a net gain.”
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The public needs to know if the government raided journalist Timothy Burke for simply gathering the news, Freedom of the Press Foundation and a coalition tell a federal appeals court in a new amicus brief. https://freedom.press/news/doj-must-explain-newsroom-raid-coalition-tells-federal-court/
Call Congress to tell them to stop the Kids Online Safety Act! https://act.eff.org/action/call-congress-to-stop-kosa
KOSA is a censorship bill that will mean less access to online information — including journalism — for everyone. https://act.eff.org/action/call-congress-to-stop-kosa
A news crew robbed at gunpoint in Chicago, a videographer assaulted at a NY protest — at least 25 journalists have been assaulted so far this year coast-to-coast.
Managing Editor Kirstin McCudden examines who exactly is attacking them in this month’s newsletter.
Read and subscribe at the following link. https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/whos-assaulting-journalists-in-2023/
“I don’t believe that this is encrypted so I think we’re OK.”
This is what a police officer said as they were seizing computers the Marion, Kansas newsroom.
The outrageous Kansas underscores the need for newsroom encryption.
https://freedom.press/training/blog/marion-record-police-raid/
“Based on the reporting so far, the police raid of the Marion County Record [in Marion, KS,] on Friday appears to have violated federal law, the First Amendment, and basic human decency. Everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves," said FPF Director of Advocacy Seth Stern.
"The anti-press rhetoric that’s become so pervasive in this country has become more than just talk and is creating a dangerous environment for journalists trying to do their jobs."
https://freedom.press/news/fpf-statement-on-alarming-police-raid-of-kansas-newspaper/
PRESS Act would create a more informed public -- By FPF Advocacy Director @SethAStern
https://freedom.press/news/press-act-would-create-a-more-informed-public/
SCOTUS rejects prior restraints despite alleged national security danger.
It rejects clawbacks of docs released by gov despite privacy interests of minors, crime victims.
Why this judge thinks police secrecy is an exception is a mystery. He’s 100% wrong. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-04/judge-justifies-extraordinary-prior-restraint-on-publishing-lapd-photos-appeal-planned