Freedom of speech but not for ferners
: The U.S. is making it tough for foreign journalists to renew visas and is telling visitors on tourist visas they may not represent foreign media.
One heckuva way to demonstrate the power of the First Amendment, eh?
Two problems with this: First, foreign governments will retaliate against American journalists. Second, in this day and age, everyone is a reporter. Does this mean that a blogger over here posting about America is violating a visa?
I’m tougher on homeland security than most, but this is just stupid. We’re supposed to believe that freedom of information is a good thing, remember? [Thanks to Ernie Miller and Michael Froomkin]
