The danger with an ill thought out knee-jerk against extremists like the Counterspin Duo is that we only build them by providing them with a show trial! Their first defence against providing their passwords will be Journalistic privilege! They will argue they are doing journalism against the State and are refusing to provide passwords too protect that journalism! Very quickly this starts becoming a trial about whether or not they are journalists! I fear we are going to make the same mistake with this Show trial, which is deeply problematic because these two are actually a genuine threat.

Source: Stuff September 02, 2022 19:56 UTC