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Judge: Freedom of the Press for Commercial Use Only

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-precedent dept.

Kilroy writes "According to a Seattle judge freedom of the press only applies to paid journalists. As a result, he has indefinantly imprisoned a 70 year old former journalism professor for posting mean things on the web. I wonder how much something has to earn in order to make it legal to publish?"

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  1. Another story by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here's the public domain version of the story, for those of you who want true freedom. I still haven't figured out why freedom of speech doesn't apply in this case. Maybe because he wasn't "talking"?