How very medieval of you
by digby
British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday his government was likely to act to stop newspapers publishing what he called damaging leaks from former U.S. intelligence operative Edward Snowden unless they began to behave more responsibly.
“If they (newspapers) don’t demonstrate some social responsibility it will be very difficult for government to stand back and not to act,” Cameron told parliament, saying Britain’s Guardian newspaper had “gone on” to print damaging material after initially agreeing to destroy other sensitive data.
Now you know why the American revolutionaries decided to break off with England and why the writers of the US Constitution felt the need to explicitly guarantee freedom of speech and freedom of the press: because there is always some power mad prick like David Cameron deciding what the people are allowed to know.
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