◼ The criminal ‘link’ of forwarding websites: Justice Department wants to make sharing information a crime - Washington Times EDITORIAL
A federal prosecutor in Texas wants to change that by making it a crime to link to things the government doesn’t want anybody to see.
For more than a year, a young journalist, Barrett Brown, has been held in custody, threatened with spending the rest of his life in prison because he shared a link.
...Whether on email, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, links are the lifeblood of the Internet. Shut them down, and life at the White House becomes much more convenient.
This was to be “the most transparent administration in history” — Barack Obama himself said so. The First Amendment seems always under government assault.
