Judge rules against bloggers as journalists
This is a serious assault on American bloggers freedoms and frankly anyone concerned about this should not hesitate to let Apple know by telling them you’ll no longer buy their products. If Apple doesn’t respect your First Ammendment rights then you should walk away from them.
Three blogs which published sensitive information about upcoming Apple products could be made to disclose where the leaks came from.
A California judge said in a preliminary ruling that bloggers should not have the same protection afforded to journalists under US law.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), representing the sites, said it was disappointed with the ruling.
The case’s outcome could be far-reaching for bloggers and writers.
Would this be a solution to the problem? Perhaps someone should form a media corporation and every blogger that wants protection can be “hired” by this media corporation by publishing an article or two on the media corps website and then status as a stringer (is that the right term - someone who only gets paid when they produce an article for a newspaper/radio/tv?). Only in this case the only payment is the publication of the articles.
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