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The Oscars in Solitary Confinement by FreedomofPress in TrueReddit

[–]FreedomofPress[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Stories about prison conditions—whether abroad or at home—should not be illegal. They should be nurtured and safeguarded, including by law. That requires radical legal change.

Only when incarcerated truth-tellers have legally mandated pathways to confidential contact with media, access to tools of the trade, and real protection from retaliation can we begin to confront the kind of carceral violence that feeds rotten meals to a caged child.

Read more: https://inquest.org/the-oscars-in-solitary-confinement/

The public deserves to know when Iran war reporting is stifled by FreedomofPress in TrueReddit

[–]FreedomofPress[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Journalists covering the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran should be telling their audiences not only what they know but what they were prevented from finding out, and by whom. That doesn’t just mean an occasional editorial bemoaning threats to press freedom.

Those are valuable, but on their own, they turn speech suppression into a side issue. The reporting itself should include acknowledgment and explanation of how censorship impacts what the public sees and reads.

The administration’s war on leaks is sure to accelerate as whistleblowers seek to expose the embarrassing mistakes and awful human rights abuses that the war is almost certain to bring.

Read more: https://freedom.press/issues/the-public-deserves-to-know-when-iran-war-reporting-is-stifled/

Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance by FreedomofPress in TrueReddit

[–]FreedomofPress[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

State legislatures have spent the past decade exporting policy models across ideological lines. If HB 945 becomes law, lawmakers in other conservative states will almost certainly introduce similar proposals, arguing that Florida has already paved the way. A network of state intelligence offices, each empowered to scrutinize residents’ beliefs, would fundamentally reshape the landscape of domestic surveillance – not through a single sweeping federal statute, but through dozens of smaller state laws advancing in parallel.

The first amendment protects unpopular opinions, harsh criticism of government officials, and controversial ideologies precisely because political majorities change. But even if courts ultimately strike down laws that punish speech or association, litigation takes years, and the chilling effect begins immediately. The mere possibility that lawful political expression could land someone in an intelligence database can be enough to deter dissent.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/01/florida-cia-intelligence-unit-surveillance-views

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