• @[email protected]
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    912 days ago

    If a reporter won’t go to jail to protect their sources, then they’re not a good reporter imo. That’s like, a huge part of their job.

    • Max-P
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      912 days ago

      They might not even know the source. The Guardian for example has a Tor service to upload them stuff completely anonymously.

      Of course the crooked courts will pretend they’re refusing to comply and jail them anyway to make a show.

      • m-p{3}
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        212 days ago

        And they become a martyr of the free press. Not a good look for the White House and the Justice System.

    • Maeve
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      1212 days ago

      Ideals are easier to have than to hold.

    • Possibly linux
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      12 days ago

      You may think you would run into the fire but when feel those flames it suddenly gets scarry