Amy Davidson

Journalism agenda: “Snowden to journalists: your best defense is legal limits on spying, not crypto”

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Snowden to journalists: your best defense is legal limits on spying, not crypto Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh3HWTwDNzU Edward Snowden videoconferenced with a journalism roundtable at Editors Lab participants at Süddeutsche Zeitung (home of the Panama Papers) about the effect of state surveillance on a free press. The New York Times’ earnings report is more proof … Read more

A Manning verdict roundup- What is the point of Manning’s 35-year sentence? and more…

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Manning statement (now hyperlinked) worthy of Nobel laureate Bradley Manning?s post-sentence statement, issued by his lawyer, was the kind of statement you would expect to be given by a Nobel Peace Prize recipient in their acceptance speech. It is both unequivocal and profound. Below, we reproduce it with one difference: we have added hyperlinks, where … Read more