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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?"

3 of 79 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Uhhh...what? by QuodEratDemonstratum · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Another news source. (From March, so not the absolute latest on the case)

  2. First Offtopic Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n/t

  3. WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Some moron with a default score two claims he doesn't believe the story. A simple google search on the man involved's name shows that it's real.

    Someone else posts a link to this article and gets modded offtopic.

    Why are you all pissing in your own pool?

    Yes, this really is offtopic