ALSO: WTF, Guardian? How did that paper not just say “molon labe” about “their own freedom to publish whatever they like”?
You treat this like being subject to secret gag orders is something abnormal for the enviroment in which the Guardian operates. The UK does not have a first amendment the way the US has.
From the article:
The Guardian has vowed urgently to go to court to overturn the gag on its reporting. The editor, Alan Rusbridger, said: “The media laws in this country increasingly place newspapers in a Kafkaesque world in which we cannot tell the public anything about information which is being suppressed, nor the proceedings which suppress it. It is doubly menacing when those restraints include the reporting of parliament itself.”
It’s an event that’s part of a trend.
The thing I think is so amazing is that this didn’t trigger more of an uproar.
It caused enough of an uproar that it’s out in the public domain. For most stories involving secret gag orders you never hear about them because they aren’t fought strongly enough for that.
This was before Brexit… so… was this legal inside of Britain even despite Britain mostly not having sovereignty over itself back then? Couldn’t at least the EU have intervened to insist on freedom of the press??
EU intervention would have needed someone to bring the legal case to the European Court of Justice. Those lawsuits are expensive and in this case it seemed easier to settle.
You treat this like being subject to secret gag orders is something abnormal for the enviroment in which the Guardian operates. The UK does not have a first amendment the way the US has.
From the article:
It’s an event that’s part of a trend.
It caused enough of an uproar that it’s out in the public domain. For most stories involving secret gag orders you never hear about them because they aren’t fought strongly enough for that.
EU intervention would have needed someone to bring the legal case to the European Court of Justice. Those lawsuits are expensive and in this case it seemed easier to settle.