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The White House’s plan to make sharing certain links a crimeOn January 22nd, investigative journalist Barrett Brown was sentenced to an obscene 63 months in prison, in part for sharing a hyperlink to a stolen document that he did not steal, and despite the fact that he was not guilty of a crime for linking to it. The attempt to paint merely linking to information as criminal has serious repercussions and represents a dangerous precedent for the practices of journalists. More troubling for press freedom, however, is the White House's proposed expansion of the CAFA, which will make it much easier for prosecutors to charge journalists with publishing hacked documents in the future. The White House recently issued a proposal for radically expanding the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA, which would make it much easier for journalists to be charged for linking to hacked documents containing passwords—regardless of intent. Read more http://boingboing.net/2015/01/26/barrett-browns-sentence-is.html All articles about
Category[21]: Unsere Themen in der Presse Short-Link to this page: a-fsa.de/e/2ps Link to this page: https://www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org/de/articles/4767-20150203-fuenf-jahre-gefaengnis-fuer-einen-link.html Link with Tor: http://a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvnk4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/4767-20150203-fuenf-jahre-gefaengnis-fuer-einen-link.html Tags: #Zensur #USA #Link #Urteil #Informationsfreiheit #Anonymisierung #Meinungsfreiheit #Internetsperren #Netzneutralitaet #OpenSource #Urheberrecht #Whistleblowing #Polizei #Geheimdienste Created: 2015-02-03 09:09:40 Hits: 1549 Leave a Comment |
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