An Espionage Act indictment against Assange would be unprecedented, and could erode freedoms that reporters enjoy during their normal work of cultivating sources in government.
Most seem to believe that nebulous, sinister forces are corrupting American governance and actively eroding freedom.
Britain isn't the only Western democracy where lawmakers are seeking to find a way to put pressure on China over eroding freedom in Hong Kong.
The British parliamentary committee reviewed testimony from nearly 700 people and civic groups in Hong Kong and concluded in its 70-page report that there are "real concerns" about Beijing eroding freedom of the press and of assembly in the territory.
However, the absurd notion that knowledge, because it reduces the number of choices that can be sensibly made, somehow erodes freedom was soon laid to rest [ 3].
With this channel of political activity overpoliced to the point of blockage, the result is a positive feedback loop of rising inequality and eroding freedoms.
The people are concerned about eroding freedoms and journalists are especially exercised by pressures on their own trade, fearing the implications of a privacy law that went into effect on 1 April.
Opponents say that it will erode Internet freedom and stifle innovation.
A coalition of Australian media companies, in a submission published on Wednesday, argued an associated two-year jail term for unauthorised disclosure of information about such searches could further erode press freedom.
According to an article in the Daily Mail, the report makes "a devastating attack" on the Leveson inquiry, which "became a tool for a determined group of lobbyists [Hacked Off] to use regulation to erode press freedom".
