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When Posting a Link is a Crime
Brown is being charged, essentially, with doing something everyone (including myself right now) does on the Internet: he posted a link.
The Brown case raises all kinds of issues around freedom of expression and information but, perhaps most importantly, it uncovers a deeper and more dangerous aspect of the Obama Administration's information policy. Brown's case illustrates that, in addition to targeting the use of the Internet for spreading information, it is targeting the very act of information distribution. That includes the work that journalists routinely do but it also includes the information sharing you and I do on the Internet almost as a reflex.
It also reveals a world the government definitely doesn't want you to know about: the murky, possibly sometimes illegal, world of inter-connection between the government and a network of secretive information and cyber-security companies. That was the world Brown broke into and that, in the end, is probably his “crime” …. http://thiscantbehappening.net
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2013/09/when-posting-link-is-crime.html
