Freedom of the press -- that is, your personal liberty to write and
disseminate whatever you wish without fear of prosecution -- is
protected by the United States Constitution. It's just that there's this
exception for national security. It's in the fine print, or something.
Don't ask me where it's found but the Supreme Court keeps finding it.

The Espionage Act of 1917 remains on the books and most of it isn't
unconstitutional.

All but one of the counts Assange is indicted for is under the Espionage
Act.

Do you trust the government to protect the free press? After all, the
Justice Department policy is not to prosecute you if you're deemed to be
a real journalist. That's also in that same fine print in the
Constitution that the really real journalism is subject to recognition
by the federal government.

No one deemed poor Mr. Schenck a real journalist. He had an opinion
about resisting the WWI-era draft. He opposed the war and wanted to
influence others to join him. He published a leaflet and got arrested.

The Wilson administration cracked down on opposition to WWI and
prosecuted thousands of people. If similar opinions were written on an
editorial page of a newspaper, why wouldn't Wilson have prosecuted the
newspaper publisher given that the problem was published dissent against
the war effort and discouraging public support of the war, not that the
words were printed on a leaflet versus a newspaper.

'Real' Journalists Recognize That Prosecuting Julian Assange Poses a
Grave Threat to Freedom of the Press
The Justice Department's discretion is the only thing that protects them
from a similar fate.
by Jacob Sullum
Reason
11.30.2022 12:01 AM
https://reason.com/2022/11/30/real-journalists-recognize-that-prosecuting-julian-assange-poses-a-grave-threat-to-freedom-of-the-press/

On Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 5:15:46 AM UTC-5, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Freedom of the press -- that is, your personal liberty to write and
> disseminate whatever you wish without fear of prosecution -- is
> protected by the United States Constitution.

First they came for your free-speech right to boycott an apartheid state,

and you said nothing...

https://www.google.com/search?q=boycott+35+States+BDS

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