{"id":1458,"date":"2005-03-11T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/03\/11\/sidestepping_the_question.html"},"modified":"2005-03-11T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T15:28:17","slug":"sidestepping_the_question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/03\/11\/sidestepping_the_question.html","title":{"rendered":"sidestepping the question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/news\/archives\/2005_03.php\">a decision came down on the the EFF \/ Apple blogging case<\/a> and it&#8217;s a little disturbing.  Basically, they ruled that no one (digital or paper) journalists have the privilege to protect their sources when trade secrets are involved.  In other words, the rights of companies trump the First.<\/p>\n<p>This sidesteps the blogger vs. journalist question entirely.  Which is partially good because, like i said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/03\/09\/are_bloggers_journalists_wrong_question.html\">it&#8217;s the wrong question<\/a>.  But, it&#8217;s partially bad, because people didn&#8217;t declare it to be the wrong question, just one worth sidestepping.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the case is concerned, i&#8217;m concerned.  On one hand, i understand that people shouldn&#8217;t have the right to leak information that they know is private and expect protection.  On the other, the reason that the First exists is to protect powerful systems from oppressing the people under their structure.  In other words, it&#8217;s OK when information from inside the government is leaked because it&#8217;s a matter of checks and balances.  But there are no checks and balances for corporations right?  What constitutes a trade secret?  How can you tell?  Now we have two loopholes to allow for continuous oppression &#8211; trade secrets and government security.  And you can&#8217;t even actually check this.  It may be true in a few cases, but there&#8217;s so much room to be abusive.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye dear freedoms&#8230; it was nice knowing you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a decision came down on the the EFF \/ Apple blogging case and it&#8217;s a little disturbing. Basically, they ruled that no one (digital or paper) journalists have the privilege to protect their sources when trade secrets are involved. In other words, the rights of companies trump the First. This sidesteps the blogger vs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}