A person who publishes on a website is a journalist, and their publications are like other publications. To find otherwise would endanger transparency. BUT Assange’s charge is fine. It does not implicate 1A even under journalistic standards.
A journalist who rapes is guilty of a crime. A journalist who helps crack a computer is guilty of a crime. It’s the ACT’s status, not the ACTOR’s status, that determines 1A protection.
A person can be a journalist AND an enemy agent. A journalist AND a criminal.” It’s crucially important to make these distinctions and not to adopt the reductive fallacy “If Assange is a journalist, any charge against him is punishment for journalism.” You’re smarter than that.
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