Another way to look at this is that forcing publishers to publish the government's speech is what happens in China.
Jameel Jaffer
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Jameel Jaffer
@JameelJaffer
Director, @knightcolumbia. Editor, @just_security. Formerly @ACLU. This is my personal account. Also: @jameeljaffer.bsky.social & @[email protected].
Joined December 2011
- A judge just found that the Justice Department tried to send a man to prison in retaliation for his plan to publish a book critical of the president. What country is this, again?
- From the FBI agent who led the investigation into the massacre of civilians by Blackwater mercenaries. nytimes.com/2021/01/01/opi…
- A few years ago it was very common for older liberals to complain that young people don't understand or appreciate free speech.
- This is worth reading. From one of the country’s leading experts on the laws of war: Trump’s pardon of war criminals might itself be a war crime.
- I didn’t respond to @paulkrugman's original tweet because I assumed it was just a bad tweet and that he’d figure that out on his own. But now I'm realizing that a lot of the events that defined the past 19 years for people like me didn’t even register with him. THREADI’m going to do a delayed update on a tweet from 9/11 that sparked a lot of outrage. Before I start, however, let me give you some data from the FBI’s hate crimes database, showing victims of hate crimes by motivation in selected years. ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime 1/
- This is not the “never again” tweet one would have hoped for this morning......THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO A PRESIDENT AGAIN!
- You imprisoned eight hundred men at Guantanamo based on hearsay evidence. (Which is one of about twenty reasons your tweet is bad.)In America you can’t even get a parking ticket based on hearsay testimony. But you can impeach a president? I certainly hope not.
- Think what you want about Snowden and Russia. He did an immense public service by exposing mass surveillance programs that multiple courts later found to be unconstitutional. The newspapers that happily collected prizes for their reporting on the abuses should say this clearly.
- The Biden admin has finally told the DC Circuit why Americans can't have access to TikTok.
- From a note that Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger just sent to the @Columbia community.
- Someone at Guantanamo has finally been charged, tried, and convicted.BREAKING: A federal judge in Jacksonville, Florida, just sentenced the former Guantanamo Bay commander to two years in prison for obstruction of justice and other federal charges. nytimes.com/2020/01/18/us/…
- Rumsfeld gave the orders that resulted in the abuse and torture of hundreds of prisoners in US custody in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay. This should be at the top of every obituary.
- Disney blocks John Oliver episode to avoid inconveniencing Modi, whose henchmen are inciting anti-Muslim riots in India. Utterly craven. bloombergquint.com/business/walt-…
