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‘This is the Criminalisation of Journalism’ — Julian Assange’s Counsel Jennifer Robinson

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 03, 2024,
updated Jul 03, 2024

It's even worse than she put it because it is an attack on how the Internet works, in pursuit of censorship of true information

‘This is the criminalization of journalism’

WebM: ‘This is the criminalization of journalism’

THIS is just a cropped (shortened) clip of Jen's sound bites. The damage caused by last week's events remains to be undone. A Presidential (and "precedential") pardon might do, FOIA can help just a little, and a similar case isn't unlikely to happen again any time soon.

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