French Ban on Citizen Journalists
Mar 22 2007, Vikas Shekhawat

The latest hypocritical law passed by French Constitutional Council criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists in the name of curbing the phenomenon of ‘happy slapping’. In this clear...

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