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The colossal catastrophe that is the Marion County PD's raid of a small town newspaper's offices (along with a raid of the home of its 98-year-old co-owner [who died shortly thereafter]) continues to generate national (and international!) headlines. The PD claimed this was all above-board. Supposedly computer crime laws were broken by local journalists when…

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Prior restraint but it's a law. Everyone saw this coming. "Marsy's Laws" began popping up all over the nation, written to prevent the naming of crime victims, especially when the victims were minors. It was perceived as a way to protect victims' privacy and, hopefully, head off harassment from the not-inconsequential portion of humanity that…

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Well, NSO Group really made a mess of this for everyone. Ever since the devastating leak showing its customers routinely targeted journalists, government critics, dissidents, and human rights activists (you know, rather than the violent criminals and terrorists they said they'd use the spyware to track), things have gone from bad to worse to career-ending…