{"id":186769,"date":"2019-04-15T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186769"},"modified":"2019-04-17T06:19:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:19:13","slug":"assange-assassination-the-death-of-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186769","title":{"rendered":"Assange Assassination \u2013 The Death of Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<h1><b>Mark Windows \u2013 Windows on the World April 14, 2019<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/markwindows\/assange-assasination-death-of-journalism\" data-resource=\"episode_id=17640955\" data-theme=\"light\" data-autoplay=\"false\" data-playlist=\"false\" data-cover=\"https:\/\/d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net\/images.spreaker.com\/original\/0ca052a5853bb44910740cbfe07df604.jpg\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"400px\">Listen to &#8220;Assange Assasination &#8211; Death of Journalism?&#8221; on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The release of public interest information is under threat like never before..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>A look at proposed UK and EU legislation restricting journalism and the Julian Assange case.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The arrest of Julian Assange opens the doors to associate anybody who has any alleged link to wikileaks to be associated with Assange and taken down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We also look at the new UK government White paper\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/online-harms-white-paper\">Online Harms<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0which could further restrict the internet and criminalise alternative views.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s (ACLU) Ben Wizner released a statement highlighting the serious danger Assanges prosecution would pose for all journalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cAny prosecution by the United States of Mr Assange for WikiLeaks\u2019 publishing operations would be unprecedented and unconstitutional, and would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organisations,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Prosecuting Assange wouldn\u2019t only endanger non-American journalists. According to Wizner, this attack on press freedom is a two-way street&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/windowsontheworld.net\/video_type\/assange-assasination-death-of-journalism\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Windows on how freedom of the press is under threat like never before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186769"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186776,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186769\/revisions\/186776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}