As if it wasn't enough to be effectively called shallow, now there's this: Bloggers not protected by Constitution. I'm not sure I like where this is going.
The key transgressions...
"By his preliminary ruling, judge Kleinberg had refused to extend to the Web sites the same protection that shields journalists from revealing their unidentified sources or surrendering unpublished material."
and
"free speech protection applied only to legitimate members of the press and not to website publishers"
I'm not saying that I, or that us bloggers in general, are inherently defacto journalists, but that doesn't mean we couldn't be either. I think the precedent that may be set here is very dangerous.
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