From Ars Technica, we learn:
The House of Representatives has amended the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 to include provisions to protect bloggers from being required to divulge their sources under certain situations in the same way as journalists. Instead of requiring journalists to be tied to a news organization, the bill now defines "journalism" to focus more on the function of the job: "the gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting, or publishing of news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest for dissemination to the public."
You would think our First Amendment would cover the "free flow of information." Ah well, I suppose those thieves in Washington need to keep themselves busy somehow.
Let’s assume the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 passes. Do you think it will protect me from the wrath of Hillary Clinton if she is elected? I doubt it. The only reason her people aren’t trying to destroy me right now is because I have a tiny little readership. If you write exposes, hit pieces or even just factual analysis about the lives, motives and true intent of politicians, bureaucrats or other government insiders you expose yourself to risk. The more power government has, the more true my previous sentence becomes.
This is how government works, in a nutshell:
- Pass laws
- Ignore laws
- Pass more laws to fix the problems with laws already being ignored because they are impossible to enforce
It’s an play, with three acts, that never ends.