Freedom of the Press: DOJ wins order to force NYT Reporter to testify against source

Phazael_sl said:

If you are establishing groups (in this case Teabagger PACs) with the sole intent of abusing the law and go out of your way to verbally and publicly shit all over the IRS,

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A key responsibility of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is to keep large media companies from acquiring too many local television stations in one market. But conglomerates have been doing just this through some legal trickery that the FCC has failed to address, according to a new report from Free Press, a public interest group.

"TV consolidation is out of control, and communities are paying the price," S. Derek Turner, who authored the report, said in a statement. "Companies are swallowing up stations at an alarming rate, often through deals that violate the law."

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In a landmark ruling, a French court on Wednesday ordered Google to prevent its search engine from providing links to images of a sadomasochistic orgy involving former Formula One boss Max Mosley.
Google, which had strongly opposed Mosley's request,immediately announced that it would appeal a decision it fears will set a dangerous legal precedent for costly and heavy-handed automated censorship of the internet.

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